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CLARK UNIVERSITY. 

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EARLY PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



BOARD OF TRUSTEES. 



WILL OF 

JONAS G. CLARK. 



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CLARK UNIVERSITY. 



[Extracts from the Records of the Board. Not for general circulation.] 

As the first positive step toward the realization of his plans, 
Mr. Jonas G. Clark, in the latter part of 1886, invited the 
following gentlemen to constitute with himself a board of 
trustees : 

THE TRUSTEES. 

STEPHEN SALISBURY, A. B., Harvard, 1856; Universities of Paris 
and Berlin, 1856-58 ; Harvard Law School, 1859-61 ; Presided 
Antiquarian Society since 1887. 

CHARLES DEVENS, A. B., Harvard, 1838; Harvard Law School, 
1840; Major Gen'l, 1863; Judge Supreme Court, 1857; U. S. 
Att'y Gen'l, 1877-81; LL. D., Columbia and Harvard, 1877; 
Judge Supreme Court since 1881. 

GEORGE F. HOAR, A. B., Harvard, 1846 ; Harvard Law School, 
1849; U. S. House of Representatives, 1868-76; U. S. Senator 
since 1876 ; LL. D., William and Mary, Amherst, Harvard and 
Yale. 

WILLIAM W. RICE, A. B., Bowdoin, 1846. Admitted to Bar 1854. 
U. S. Houseof Representatives, 1876-86; LL. D., Bowdoin, 1886. 

JOSEPH SARGENT, A. B., Harvard, 1834; M. D., Harvard, 1837: 
London and Paris Hospitals, 1838-40. 

JOHN D. WASHBURN, A. B., Harvard, 1853; Harvard Law School, 
1856; Representative, 1876-79; State Senate, 1887; U. S. Minis- 
ter to Switzerland, 1889. 

F. P. GOULDING, A. B., Dartmouth, 1863; Harvard Law School, 
1866; City Solicitor since 1881. 

GEORGE SWAN, A. B., Amherst, 1847; Admitted to Bar, 1851; 
member of Worcester School Board since 1879 ; Chairman of 
High School Committee. 



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THE PETITION. 



To the Honorable the Senate and the House of Representatives 
of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 
The undersigned, citizens of this Commonwealth, respect- 
fully petition your Honorable body for an Act of Incorpora- 
tion, establishing at Worcester, in the County of Worcester, 
an Institution for the promotion and encouragement of 
learning in all its higher branches, with the power to receive 
and hold real and personal estate, the use and income of 
which is to be devoted wholly to the purposes of said Insti- 
tution ; and to hold, enjoy and exercise all the privileges 
immunities rights and powers (including that of conferring 
degrees) held, enjoyed and exercised by the universities and 
colleges of this Commonwealth. 

And your petitioners further pray that said Institution may 
be known by the name of Clark University in recognition 
of the munificence of its originator and founder, as shown 
by an endowment of One Million Dollars, and probably 
more, should the community exhibit substantial evidence of 
its sympathy, encouragement and support. 

Jonas G. Clark, Joseph Sargent, 

Stephen Salisbury, John D. Washburn, 
Chas. Devens, Frank P. Goulding, 

George F. Hoar, George Swan. 

William W. Rice, 

The following are the endorsements of said petition : 

Senate. 
Petition of Jonas G. Clark and others for the Incorporation 
of the Clark University at Worcester. 

Senate Jan'y 17th, 1887. 
Presented by Mr. Marble of Worcester. 
Referred to the Committee on Education. 
Sent down for Concurrence. 

E. Herbert Clapp, Clerk. 
House of Representatives, Jan'y 18th, 1887. 
Concurred : 

Edward A. McLaughlin, Clerk. 



ACT OF INCORPORATION. 
Chapter 133. 

COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS IN THE YEAR ONE THOUSAND 
EIGHT HUNDRED AND EIGHTY SEVEN. AN ACT TO INCORPORATE 
THE TRUSTEES OF CLARK UNIVERSITY IN WORCESTER. 

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General 
Court assembled, and by authority of the same, as follows: 

Section 1. Jonas G. Clark, Stephen Salisbury, Charles Devens, 
George F. Hoar, William W. Rice, Joseph Sargent, John D. Wash- 
burn, Frank P. Goulding, and George Swan, all of the city of Wor- 
cester, in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and their successors, 
are hereby made a corporation by the name of the Trustees of Clark 
University, to be located in said Worcester, for the purpose of estab- 
lishing and maintaining in said city of Worcester an institution for the 
promotion of education, and investigation in science, literature and art,^ 
to be called Clark University. 

Section 2. Said incorporation may receive and hold real or personal 
estate by gift, grant, device, bequest or otherwise, for the purpose 
aforesaid, and shall have all the rights, privileges, immunities, and 
powers, including the conferring of degrees, which similar incorpora- 
ted institutions have in this Commonwealth. 

Section 3. Said corporation shall have the power to organize said 
University in all its departments, to manage and control the same, to 
appoint its officers, who shall not be members of said corporation, and 
to fix their compensation and their tenure of office; and said corpora- 
tion may provide for the appointment of an advisory board, and for 
the election by the Alumni of said University to fill any vacancies in 
said board. 

Section 4. The number of members of said corporation shall not 
be less than seven nor more than nine, and any vacancy therein may 
be filled by the remaining members at a meeting duly called and noti- 
fied therefor; and when any member thereof shall, by reason of infirm- 
ity or otherwise, become incapable, in the judgment of the remaining 
members, of discharging the duties of his office, or shall neglect or 
refuse to perform the same, he may be removed and another be elected 
to fill his place, by the remaining members, at a meeting duly called 
and notified for that purpose. 

Section 5. This Act shall take efifect upon its passage. 

House of Representatives, March 30, 1887, Passed to be Enacted. 

Charles J. No yes. Speaker. 

Senate, March 31, 1887, Passed to be Enacted. 

Halsey J. BoARDMAN, President. 



ADDRESS OF THE FOUNDER. 



At a meeting of the Board of Trustees held May 4, 1887, 
the Secretary, at the request of the President, and Founder, 
read to them the following address : 

To the Members of the Corporation of Clark University : — 
Gentlemen : 
We have now signified our acceptance of the charter which 
has recently been granted to us by the Legislature of the 
Commonwealth and completed our general organization as a 
corporation, under it. 

The first matter which presents itself for our consideration 
in our new enterprise is the discussion and adoption of some 
plan which shall seem to be the best and the most effective 
for the promotion of our future work. 

In the consideration of this question we shall be materially 
aided by the experience of other institutions of a similar 
character to the one we propose, both in foreign countries 
and in our own. 

In our own country we have institutions of learning of all 
ages, grades and objects, which will afford us much assist- 
ance, and from whose experience we can derive many hints 
and take many practical lessons. Among the newer ones 
are the Cornell and the Johns Hopkins universities which 
are evidently doing good work, and to the general scope, 
purpose and methods of which I would invite your special 
attention. 

We have been accustomed to regard Oxford and Cam- 
bridge as ideal standards of educational institutions. Their 
foundations are ancient, and they have grown up under a 
government in which Church and State have always been 
allied. They are undoubtedly better adapted, excellent as 
they are, to English institutions and to the English people 
than to our own. 

In France, the instruction given in the higher branches of 
learning, in their institutions, is very much more thorough. 

The results are plainly descernible in the giving to the 



world so many distinguished and accomplished scholars as 
that country has done in the last and present centuries. 

Prussia has probably, as a whole, the best school and uni- 
versity system in practice at the present time. Its effects 
are clearly perceptible upon the growth and prosperity of 
the nation, and it has been generally acknowledged to be one 
of the leading forces which have contributed to its elevation 
from a third-rate kingdom to a commanding and leading 
power among the nations of the world. At some future 
time I desire to call your special attention to h€r schools and 
universities, and their methods. 

In proceeding with this work which we are about to under- 
take the first step seems to be to plan and construct the 
necessary buildings, or, at least, a part of them. In antici- 
pation of this part of our labors, I have prepared a plan or 
design which I present for your examination, and which will 
invite your criticism or commend itself to your approval, 
after having such explanation of it generally and in detail, 
as I am able to give. 

I recommend that we proceed at once and with all con- 
venient dispatch to erect such building or buildings as may 
be found needed, and as may be required for the prosecution 
of a collegiate course, and have the same in such a state of 
forwardness that the first class may present itself for exami- 
nation and admission on the first Monday of October in the 
year one thousand eight hundred and eighty-eight. 

During the four years which will be occupied for this first 
class in its undergraduate course, we shall need to prepare 
other buildings and provide other facilities, that we may be 
in readiness for the members of this class or such of them 
as may desire to avail themselves of the opportunity, to 
enter at once upon the post-graduate courses, professional 
or otherwise, in their preparation for the actual business of life. 

These post-graduate and professional courses, allow me to 
say, it should always be our aim and determined purpose, to 
keep above and beyond the reach of partisan influence and 
sectarian basis, and in their conduct and pursiiit they should 
be made to embrace as wide a range as possible of Theology, 
Philosophy, Science, Literature and Art. 



For these objects, therefore, and to secure their attainment 
I propose to give : 

1. The sum of three hundred thousand dollars (payable as 
the same shall be needed) to the general working or con- 
struction fund, to be applied in the erection of buildings and 
equipping them with such appliances and facilities as may be 
deemed necessary for putting the University in good working 
order. 

2. I propose to give the sum of one hundred thousand dol- 
lars the income of which shall be devoted to the support and 
maintenance of a University Library. 

3. I propose to give the sum of six hundred thousand dol- 
lars the income of which is to be devoted to the general uses 
of the University and its support and management, and which, 
for the sake of convenience, may be called the University En- 
dowment Fund. 

The Library and the Endowment Fund are never to be 
diminished and no part of the principal is, in any event, ever 
to be applied to the objects to which the income of each is to 
be devoted. If by any accident or loss either of said funds shall 
at any time become impaired, then the income of each of said 
funds shall be added to the principal until such impairment 
is made good and the funds restored to their original amounts. 

I reserve the right to pay said Library and Endowment 
Funds as the management and investment of my property 
make convenient for me, but within a reasonable time. 

4. I propose to give, in the way of real estate, library and 
works of art, what I estimate and believe to be of the value 
of five hundred thousand dollars. (Deeds to real estate given 
for record this day.) 

5. And lastly, I propose to give the further sum of five 
hundred thousand dollars, the income of which is to be de- 
voted to the erection and maintenance of three or more Pro- 
fessorships in the University ; but in the manner, at the time, 
and on the express conditions following : 

When at any time on or before the first day of July, in the 
year eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, the sum of two hun- 
dred thousand dollars shall be raised from any source, and to 
be paid at such time as the donor or donors may elect, but all 



to be paid on or before July 1, A. D. 1892, I will contribute 
a like sum for a like purpose, to wit, the erection of a Pro- 
fessorship in said University. 

When at any time, within the time aforesaid, the sum of one 
hundred and fifty thousand dollars shall be raised from any 
source and to be paid at the time aforesaid, for the erection 
and maintenance of a Professorship in said University, I will 
contribute a like sum for a like purpose. 

And when, at any time within the time aforesaid, and to be 
paid at the time aforesaid, a second sum of one hundred and 
fifty thousand dollars shall be raised from any source for the 
erection and maintenance of a Professorship in said Univer- 
sity, I will contribute a second like sum for a like purpose. 

In all cases the donor or donors shall have the right to 
name the Professorship, and to designate the branch of 
learning which the Professorship is to teach. 

I have thus briefly. Gentlemen, endeavored to give an out- 
line of my views and purposes in relation to this Institution 
which we are now establishing for the benefit of our people. 
Of course it is only the beginning. It is to be hoped and 
expected that, from time to time in the future, scholarships in 
various amounts will be established for the aid of those see- 
ing the advantages of the University, and that other aids 
incident to an institution of this kind will be added to make 
it a success and a blessing to the community in which it is 
established. 

Nor is this all. We shall at all times need additions to 
the endowment fund. This must be made an effective agent 
in the work of the University, and to that end must be kept 
constantly replenished. Not every one is able or willing to 
erect a professor's chair or found a scholarship. But all can 
contribute something to the strength and permanency of the 
Institution, to a greater or less degree, by contributing 
somewhat to its permanent fund. 

Therefore let it be known that donations of any amount, 
however small, will always be gratefully received and faith- 
fully applied. 

The above is respectfully submitted, 

Jonas G. Clark. 



REPLY OF THE TRUSTEES. 

Worcester, May 5th, 1887. 
Jonas G. Clark, Esq., 
Dear Sir : 

It is with the deepest sense of public responsibility as well 
as of the confidence you have reposed in us, and in each of 
us, that we have undertaken the duty of trustees of the in- 
stitution you have founded. We will endeavor with the aid 
of the great Source of all wisdom and light, to discharge 
that duty to the very best of our ability. 

We cannot adequately convey to you the profound feeling 
of gratitude which is entertained by the community whose 
moral and intellectual well-being this princely benefaction is 
intended to promote. It is the largest single charitable gift 
ever made by a private person in New England, and with 
very few exceptions the largest ever made, by a private per- 
son in his lifetime, anywhere in the world. If wisely and 
faithfully administered, it will be a perpetual fountain of 
usefulness and blessing until time shall be no more. It will 
elevate our beloved city, already the heart and centre of the 
manufactures of New England, to a still higher plane among 
civilized communities. Through countless generations, 
your name will be held in grateful rememberance by large 
numbers of educated men, as that of the man to whom they 
owe the best blessing of their existence. 

We thank you also for your liberal proposal to stimulate 
co-operation in other quarters. Large as this endowment is, 
the field is still larger. The usefulness of this seminary of 
education may be multiplied many fold if other public spirited 
persons shall avail themselves of your invitation to increase 
its resources. Hoping that your example may find many 
imitators, and that the University may have, in every way, 
the support and confidence of the public, and especially that 
your own life and strength may long be spared to give it the 
benefit of your counsel and direction. 

We are very sincerely. 

Your friends and associates, 
Stephen Salisbury, Joseph Sargent, 
Charles Devens, John D. Washburn, 

George F. Hoar. Frank P. Goulding, 

W. W. Rice, George Swan. 



LAYING OF THE CORNER STONE, 
October 22, 1887. 

From the Speech of General Devens. 



We are assembled to unite in the ceremony of laying- the 
corner- stone of the first of the buildings of Clark University 
and of beginning the dedication of the University to the great 
purposes for which it is organized. Simple as the ceremony 
is, the event is one of the gravest interest and importance. 

A University cannot be created at once; it must be largely a 
growth. Time is needed to'develop and adapt it to the wants 
of its age. The interest and the associations it will have% 
when the memories of the great and good men who have 
been its children cluster around it, it cannot have at once. 
All that this is to be we cannot look to see; all the good it is 
to do, we cannot know, save in hope and anticipation. Yet 
commencing with an ample endowment, situated in a wealthy 
and rapidly growing city, we may fairly anticipate that it will 
quickly win for itself an eminent place among the more an- 
cient seats of learning; and that its influence and its useful- 
ness will be steadily increasing hundreds of years after we 
that gather here shall have passed away. 

"I have taken," says Lord Bacon, "all knowledge to be 
my province." In the spirit of this noble sentiment the 
founder of this University has sought to act. We shall ven- 
ture to hope that literature, the studies that adorn and em- 
bellish life, philosophy, the arts and sciences, will find within 
these walls their chosen seat, and above all, as the object of 
culture is to make men nobler, wiser, and happier, that those 
educated here will be lifted to higher and more exalted lives 
in recognition always of their relations to humanity and their 
obligations as intellectual and immortal beings. We stand 
to-day at the fountain head, and we will believe that living 
waters are to flow from it as of old they flowed from the rock 
when it was struck by the staff of the Hebrew warrior and 
law giver. 



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Senator Hoar's Address. 

A native of Worcester County, who received in his youth 
such training as she had then to bestow, after a long and 
successful business life, has come back to spend the evening 
of his days near his birthplace. He desires to show his 
gratitude for the good that has come to him in life, and to 
confer a benefit upon his countrymen which shall be a per- 
petual fountain of usefulness and blessing until time shall 
be no more. He has desired to create something which 
shall exert the highest and most permanent influence upon 
the character of this people. To this end he has founded 
this University. He has surely chosen well. This is the 
largest single charitable gift ever made by a private person in 
his life time in New England and with very few exceptions 
the largest ever made by a private person in his life time 
anywhere in the world. 

University is a flexible term. It is incapable of exact 
definition ; but it is a place where the highest instruction is 
to be obtained that can be given by teachers and to classes. 
It is a place where libraries are to be found which show the 
existing boundaries of human knowledge, and workmen and 
apparatus are found, fitted and employed to extend them. 
These institutions have ever been among the very largest 
and most beneficent forces in American history. If you 
would predict the history of a nation you must inquire what 
its youth are thinking. 

If you would know what its youth are thinking you must 
open your ear to the voice of its universities. Among the 
men who founded New England and who shaped its destiny 
in the beginning, the leaders of the leaders were the men bred 
in the English universities. Dr. Ellis says that : "A hundred 
scholars from Cambridge and Oxford Universities were con- 
cerned in the first planting of our wilderness settlements 
with their churches, schools, colleges, and printing presses, 
during a period in which there was to be found scarcely a 
single college bred man in all the other English colonies 
here." This influence they maintained and transmitted. 
John Hancock declared at the close of the Revolution that 



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Harvard University " was in some sense the parent and 
nurse of the late happy Revolution in the Commonwealth." 

The university is the natural ornament and the bright con- 
summate flower of democracy. It is the greatest of all 
levelers. It brings every man to his proper individual level. 
The boy of humblest origin, the waif, the outcast, the child 
of poverty or shame, if he can gain admittance here, may 
gain that precious talisman of scholarship, with which he 
may stand erect, self-confident, unchallenged in the presence 
of kings. While we hope the rays of this beacon may 
penetrate to the farthest ends of the continent, its light must 
of course blaze with greatest strength upon the city where 
its tower stands. It will take its fitting place and find its 
own work among the educational institutions of the country. 
There is, and will be, room enough in that lofty companjfc 
In this great and growing city, surrounded with its garland 
of fair towns, the heart and centre of the manufactures of New 
England, the spot on earth where God has bestowed in 
largest measure the inventive faculty to the brains of man, 
the spot on earth where labor receives the largest share of 
its product, an institution devoted to the highest culture of 
brain and heart, will find its appropriate work. Experience 
will teach us to find our place and perform our office in the 
great education of the future, without jar or friction with 
any other. 

The purpose and plans of the founder, so far as they are 
then matured, will be declared more in detail when this 
building is dedicated and the University inaugurated. We 
are here to-day to lay its corner-stone. All university 
teaching, all human life is in some sense, but a laying of 
corner-stones. We would lay this stone deep in the confidence 
and affection of this community, without which the liberality 
of the founder thoughSpoured out in seas will be of little avail. 
But, beneath all, may it rest on the unshaken rock of truth, 
and upon Him, who is the chief corner-stone. It is devoted 
to no sect or creed or statement of doctrine in which human 
presumption has sought to imprison the free spirit of truth 
and to bar its onward pathway. But we would reverently 
hope that this University with all its teachers and resources 



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may be ever consecrated to building up in the hearts of its 
children that quality of character of which there has been but 
one perfect example on earth. With Lord Bacon, the greatest 
of scholars, the father of modern science, we would pray that 
God "would please to open to us new refreshments out of 
the fountains of His goodness. This, also, we humbly and 
earnestly beg that human things may not prejudice such as 
are divine, neither that from the unlocking of the gates of 
sense, and the kindling of a greater natural light, anything of 
incredulity or intellectual night may arise in our minds to- 
wards divine mysteries. But rather, that by our mind thor- 
oughly cleansed and purged from fancy and vanities and yet 
subject and perfectly given up to the divine oracles there may 
be given unto faith the things that are faith's." 



Mr. Clark's Address. 
Mr. John D. Washburn then said: — 

At Mr. Clark's request and in his behalf, and acting for the 
moment as his personal representative, I read the following 
words: 

We have assembled at this time to participate in the obser- 
vance of a most pleasing and agreeable rite, the laying of 
the corner-stone of the first building to be erected for the use 
of a new university; and although we may all feel and realize 
the fact that a university as such, fully organized and equipped 
in every respect for doing the work of such an institution, 
cannot be called into existence at once by the fiat of any 
human agency, but that it must be the result of a gradual 
growth, extending over a period of many years, we are taking 
the initial steps in the foundation of an institution which we 
believe without a doubt or a fear, will in the time to come 
realize our most sanguine hopes. Broad in its scope, liberal 
in its methods, and comprehensive in its teachings, it must 
of necessity prove a powerful instrument in promoting the 
higher education and the fuller development of the intellect- 
ual faculties of our people. 

Being placed, as we propose it shall be, in charge of the 



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ripest and most accomplished scholars of the day in the sev- 
eral departments of science, literature, and art, those seeking 
to avail themselves of its advantages will be brought in close 
relations with the best thought and the most profound wisdom 
of the world and the age. 

We are glad to be able to contribute to the foundation of 
such an institution, the work and mission of which will be the 
culture and elevation of a great and a rapidly growing people. 

We shall watch its progress with the deepest interest and 
most solicitous regard. 

The body of corporators under whose advice and guidance 
the inceptive steps have been taken in the formation of this 
new institution of learning is composed of gentlemen too 
well known to need any assurance from me that nothing will 
be omitted on their part to make it one worthy of your beau- 
tiful city; and it is not too much, perhaps, to say that its loca- 
tion here is a well earned tribute to the public spirit, diligence 
and care manifested by its citizens in the maintenance of so 
excellent a system of educational facilities, and which have in 
great measure prepared the way for the one which we are 
now planting within your borders. 

We bespeak for it your most kindly regard, admonishing 
you that for the encouragement and growth of such an insti- 
tution, nothing is more grateful or more necessary for its 
progress than the sympathy that goes out to it from your 
citizens, engendered by the influence of local pride. 

We, therefore, here and now, dedicate this University to 
Science, Letters, Art and human progress in their best and 
most valuable forms. And may the giver of all good crown its 
efforts and labors with His constant and abundant blessing. 

Jonas G. Clark. 

Worcester, Mass., 22d Oct., 1887. 



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CALL AND ACCEPTANCE OF 
PRESIDENT HALL. 



Prof. G. Stanley Hall, 

Baltimore, Md. 
Dear Sir : 

It is with great pleasure that I convey to you the announce- 
ment that the Founder and Trustees, by unanimous action, 
invite you to accept the position of President of Clark Univer- 
sity. Deeply influenced by the evidence which in various 
ways has been brought before them of your high qualifica- 
tions for such a part, impressed also by what they have been 
permitted to see of you in personal interviews, not only with 
unanimity but with enthusiastic hope do they confide this 
great charge to your hands. 

In the work to which you are thus called the Trustees 
promise you a hearty and unselfish co-operation. They desire 
to impose on you no trammels; they have no friends for whom 
they wish to provide at the expense of the interests of the 
Institution ; no pet theories to press upon you in derogation 
of your judgment ; no sectarian tests to apply ; no guarantees 
to require save such as are implied by your acceptance of this 
trust. Their single desire is to fit men for the highest duties 
of life, and to that end, that this Institution, in whatever 
branches of sound learning it may find itself engaged, may 
be made a leader and a light. 

To this high purpose they have dedicated their University, 
and, in calling you to the first position of influence and author- 
ity for its accomplishment, they give you their present confi- 
dence and the assurance of sympathy, co-operation and 
support. I am with much respect, 

Yours truly, 

John D. Washburn, 
Secretary of Clark University . 

Worcester, Mass., April 3, 1888, 



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Baltimore, Md., May 1, 1888. 
Hon. John D. Washburn, 
My Dear Sir: 

The invitation conveyed to me by your official letter of 
April 3 to become the President of Clark University finds 
me absorbed in a department of academic work which is new 
and full of promise, and attached by strong official and per- 
sonal ties to an institution, where the stimulus to research is 
strong" and the enthusiasm for science is great — where much 
has already been done and the hope of future achievement is 
high. 

Such a field, the work of organizing another college of the 
old New England type, or even the attempt to duplicate those 
that are best among established institutions old or new, would 
not induce me to leave. • 

But as I have come to know the rare educational wisdom 
as well as the rare munificence of your Founder, the single 
.and express desire of the corporation that in whatever 
branches of sound learning it may engage, the new Univer- 
sity may be a leader and a light, the many advantages of lo- 
cation afforded by your city which seem to make the place of 
this great foundation no less auspicious than is the time, the 
public co-operation, interest and good will of your citizens, 
and as I realize how inevitably these influences, once fairly 
organized, must tend in this day to still further university 
progress along old lines and to the opening of new ones, I 
am drawn with hope and enthusiasm too strong to resist from 
this present to the future service to which you call me. 

Believing that, because so much has lately been done in 
the advancement and diffusion of knowledge among men still 
further progress is made possible, and animated by the hope 
that we may together have the wisdom and the strength to 
take the next step in academic development, I accept the 
great charge you confide to my hands. 

I trust the Board you represent will never forget that I 
shall need their constant counsel and active co-operation, and 
I beseech in advance the indulgence and sympathy that a 
plain man under such responsibilities and in the presence of 
such a task is certain to need. 

I remain respectfully yours, 

G. Stanley Hall. 



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LETTERS. 

Dr. Hall visitad many institutions and educational leaders 
in this country from whom he received much oral and written 
advice, nearly all of which was in the line which the following 
two letters, selected from many, illustrate : 

Cornell University, 
Ithaca, New York, June 18th, 1888. 
My Dear Dr. Hall: 

The more I think of the questions you put to me at Sara- 
toga, the more thoroughly am I convinced that your institu- 
tion would render the greatest service it can possibly do to 
Education and the development of Science, Literature, and 
Art in the United States, by distinctly adopting the policy of 
developing and fostering the highest study and researches in 
these fields, or in some of them. 

It seems to me that to compete for undergraduate instruction 
with the many great institutions already established all about 
you, is hardly worth your while. Each one of them can and 
would gladly accommodate a much larger number of students 
than it already has. Their competition in the undergraduate 
field would be serious, and, in my opinion, tend to the 
deterioration of education, rather than to its extension. But 
there is more and more need of places where the highest 
work can be done. The best men graduating from the exist- 
ing institutions are seeking such places more and more, and 
of all men they are the most worthy of aid. 

You remember the answer in the old Fable, — "One, but a 
Lion," and if you will send out each year twenty, or ten, or 
even five men fitted to take leading places as professors, 
teachers, experts, leaders in public discussions, in the press 
and elsewhere, on important subjects, you will, I fully be- 
lieve, do a greater work than you can do in any other way. 

But you will not be restricted to the above numbers. After 
a few years you will send out much larger bodies of men. 
Every one of the colleges around you would, under such a 
policy, be a feeder to you rather than a competitor with you. 

I might add much more in favor of such a plan, but the 
above points are in my view controlling. 



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With most hearty thanks, as an American citizen, to Mr. 
Clark for his great gift, which forms one of the most 
splendid chapters in the history of munificence, and with all 
good wishes for the success of your University, and for 
your own success in the shaping of its policy, and in its 
administration, 

I remain very sincerely yours, 

Andrew D. White. 



[copy.] 

Newport, June 28th, 1888. 
Prof. G. Stanley Hall, 
Dear Sir : — 
.... I should devote the new University as exclusive!^ 
as possible to the work of scientific research — using the word 
scientific in its highest and not in any narrow sense. There 
is at present no University which covers this ground. You 
will therefore have no rivals and will interfere! with no other 
institution. But you will occupy the highest ground upon 
which a University can stand, and you will attract a class of 
men to be found no where else — men who devote themselves 
to a scientific life exclusively. I would not draw any dis- 
tinction between post-graduates and others, but simply accept 
all who are really prepared to avail themselves of the mag- 
nificent advantages which you can offer. Let each professor, 
in ordinary cases at least, judge as to who shall be admitted 
to work in his department. And let him also, in ordinary 
cases, judge as to how long a particular student shall be 
allowed to work. This will, of course, depend on observa- 
tion of the way in which the man works, of his real power 
and capacity to do good work. Keep him as long as he is 
doing good work. Drop him peremptorily when he fails. 
Such advantages should only be offered to those worthy of 
them. Require clear evidence of active work of research 
from each professor also. Let all teaching be teaching in 
the lines of original research, full of suggestion, of practical 
assistance and above all of a real living intellectual sympathy. 
I believe that such a scheme is perfectly feasible and that 



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with patience, good management, hearty interest and full 
confidence on the part of Mr. Clark and the trustees it must 
succeed triumphantly. 

Second, as to scholarships, fellowships, etc. By all means 
as many as possible, always subject to the condition that the 
fellowship ends when a man stops working from any other 
cause than sickness or physical incapacity. A University is 
a collection of learned men working in their several depart- 
ments making an intellectual center. I would begin with the 
best and strongest men who can be got. I would adopt the 
German plan of Professors Ordinary, Extraordinary and Pri- 
vat-docenten, because the Privat-docent is a very powerful 
stimulus to the Professor above him. Then working fellows 
have a similar influence. If you can, give working fellows 
a salary to keep them above want, but steadily maintain the 
principle that they must give constant evidence that they are 
working steadily and effectively. 

You will want, of course, the best possible facilities, the 
best laboratories and the best apparatus. I should begin 
with Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry and Physiology includ- 
ing Biology. Then I would bring in other branches as fast 
as means were provided, but I would fill those four depart- 
ments thoroughly at first and then expand. Bring in Politi- 
cal Science (in the broadest sense), Historical Research, 
Ethnology including Anthropology, some branch of Astron- 
omy offering a field for new work. Philology, etc. I would 
have the University grow and develop and not try to create at 

once a complete institution 

Very truly yours, 

WOLCOTT GiBBS. 



Dr. Hall was given leave of absence for eight months 
abroad during which he visited many men and institutions, 
and his note books are largely filled with advice to devote 
the new institution to research and the training of professors 
only. Helmholtz, Lords Rayleigh and Kelvin, Professors 
Michael Foster, Mosso, Victor Meyer, and nearly two score 
others thus advised. During this trip Mr. Clark wrote with 



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his own hand about thirty letters to Dr. Hall, the spirit of 
which is illustrated in the following extracts : 

Letters of Mr. Clark to Dr. Hall. 

Aug. 11, 1888. 
"The deficit of the Journal [which is chiefly for the pub- 
lication of research] we will provide for. Please give direc- 
tions about the payment." 

^ >!j >1< -J[i ^ 

Worcester, Oct. 8th, 1888. 

" I do not wish to take too much of your time, but if you 
have leisure, I shall be pleased to have you give me a short 
account of the different institutions, and of the features you 
most approve, especially in advanced work, as I am confident 
that all of our efforts should be in that direction for the* 
present. 

" If you can get men whose lives are devoted to their spe- 
cial work, to work with you I have no doubt but that we can 
in a reasonable time take our position among the leading in- 
stitutions in this country. 

" Our work should be planned for the highest standard pos- 
sible and when we get well established we can consider the 
other departments." 

Worcester Dec. 4, 1888. 

" I fully agree with you in regard to the policy of securing 
several of the best men that can be obtained. The consider- 
ation of having such men to start with will be invaluable 
to us. 

" It seems to me that Chemistry, Mathematics, Physics and 
Physiology including Biology should be the first to prepare 
for. We can then take History, Political Science and other 
branches as fast as we can properly care for them." 

Worcester, Jan. 3rd, 1889. 
" I very much wish you could delay your engagement 
with Prof. until we get more advanced with the depart- 
ments which we hope to make the best in the country. 



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" They are the departments that are to make our leading 
men in the advanced educational institutions in this country, 
when we get them well arranged with their various branches 
others will readily fall in. 

"Possibly we may see our way clear in the spring to prepare 
for the historical departments but my impression is now that 
we ought to have one year in the other departments first." 

Worcester, Feb. 11, 1889. 
" Since writing to you I have had quite a chat with Presi- 
dent Seeley of Amherst. He says at first he felt it his duty 
to do all he could to have our plans changed, but would not 
now if he could, for he thinks we are in the right and saw 
more clearly what was wanted than he did. He says they 
send a large number of students to Harvard, Johns Hopkins 
and Europe and can aid us materially and will co-operate 
with us most heartily and wanted us to feel free to call upon 
him for advice or aid in any way." 



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OPENING OF THE UNIVERSITY, 
October 22, 1889. 



General Charles Devens presided, and on taking the 

chair spoke in part as follows: 
Ladies and Gentlemen: 

The edifice of which we then (Oct. 22, 1887,) laid the cor- 
ner-stone and the laboratory which supplements it are com- 
pleted and furnished — intended for the purposes of investi- 
gation and instruction, its library halls and rooms for recita- 
tions will be seen to be commodious and convenient. The 
solidity and thoroughness which characterizes these external 
structures will, we hope, in a greater degree mark the educa- 
tion offered and the studies pursued here. 

It has been determined after full discussion to commence 
our courses of instruction in five different departments of 
science only, instead of at once undertaking all those with 
which we hope and confidently expect hereafter to deal, and 
to proceed further only as we shall be satisfied that we have 
reached, in what we have undertaken, the fullest proficiency. 

In apportioning their labors we have sought that they 
should be not so encumbered by the work of the immediate 
instruction of pupils that they shall in any important degree 
be deprived of the opportunity of pursuing themselves those 
scientific investigations which the whole community may 
properly look for and expect from a university. 



Mr. Jonas G. Clark, the Founder of the University, then 
made the following address: 

The occasion which calls us together to-day marks a decided 
as well as an original step in our undertaking. Scarcely more 
than thirty months ago we formally entered upon our work 
by accepting the charter granted by the Legislature of the 
Commonwealth, and by completing our organization under 
its several provisions. During this time we have made per- 



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haps as rapid progress as could reasonably have been expected 
when we take into consideration the greatness of the work 
and the almost infinite variety of detail involved in its execu- 
tion. 

In the progress of our labors we have met with as few ob- 
stacles as could have been anticipated, and we present to-day, 
as a result of those labors, the main building of the Univer- 
sity fully completed and ready for occupancy, and a building 
for a Laboratory far enough advanced to answer all our pres- 
ent requirements. Both buildings are receiving the necessary 
equipments and furniture to render them available for prac- 
tical use. 

In our announcement of May 23rd, we proposed to open on 
October 2nd for the commencement of actual work. For this 
purpose we are now here assembled. When we first entered 
upon our work it was with a well defined plan and purpose, 
in which plan and purpose we have steadily persevered, turn- 
ing neither to the right nor to the left. We have wrought 
upon no vague conceptions nor suffered ourselves to be borne 
upon the fluctuating and unstable current of public opinion or 
public suggestions. We started upon our career with the 
determinate view of giving to the public all the benefits and 
advantages of a university, comprehending full well what that 
implies, and feeling the full force of the general understand- 
ing that a university must, to a large degree, be a creation 
of time and experience. We have, however, boldly assumed 
as the foundation of our institution the principles, the tests 
and the responsibilities of universities as they are everywhere 
recognized — but without making any claim for the prestige 
or flavor which age imparts to all things. It has, therefore, 
been our pupose to lay our foundation broad and strong and 
deep. In this we must necessarily lack the simple element 
of years. We have what we believe to be more valuable — 
the vast storehouse of the knowledge and learning which 
have been accumulating for the centuries that have gone be- 
fore us, availing ourselves of the privilege of drawing from 
this source, open to all alike. We propose to go on to fur- 
ther and higher achievements. We propose to put into the 
hands of those who are members of the University, engaged 



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in its several departments, every facility which money can 
command — to the extent of our ability — in the way of appa- 
ratus and appliances that can in any way promote om- object 
in this direction. To our present departments we propose to 
add others from time to time, as our means shall warrant and 
the exig^encies of the University shall seem to demand, always 
taking those first whose domain lies nearest to those already 
established, until the full scope and purpose of the Univer- 
sity shall have been acomplished. 

These benefits and advantages thus briefly outlined, we 
propose placing- at the service of those who from time to time 
seek, in good faith and honesty of purpose, to pursue the 
study of science in its purity; and to engage in scientific re- 
search and investigation — to such they are offered as far as 
possible free from all trammels and hindrances, without ajy 
religious, political or social tests. All that will be required 
of any applicant will be evidence, disclosed by examinations 
or otherwise, that his attainments are such as to qualify him 
for the position which he seeks. 

In the government of the University it is our aim and fixed 
purpose that nothing like favoritism in any form shall be 
allowed ; that everything approaching religious, political or 
social bias shall be excluded, and in nothing can the friends 
of the University more fervently unite than in the prayer 
that in all times hereafter everything connected with its 
administration or the ordering of its internal arrangements, 
and in dispensing its advantages or bestowing its favors — 
either in the selection of officers or in the admission of 
applicants for place — shall be kept free from this baleful 
influence. Experience on every hand teaches us that the 
moment these influences gain a hold in the councils of a 
university the effectiveness of its work will be seriously 
impaired and its influence for good weakened or altogether 
gone. 

The Board of Trustees extend to the gentlemen who con- 
stitute the Faculty, and in whose hands have been committed 
the educational labors of the University, a sincere welcome 
to our city. Their presence with us will be an additional 
attraction to Worcester as a place of residence, and will con- 



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stitute a new and strong claim for it to be regarded as one 
of the educational centres of our country. 

Personally, I avail myself of this occasion to extend to 
my associates on the Board of Trustees my sincere and 
grateful thanks for the earnest co-operation which they have 
shown in the progress of our initiatory work ; for the zeal they 
have constantly manifested in the execution of the trust 
which they have accepted, for the unwearied labor which 
they have ever given and for their willingness to bestow 
their best care upon the work which we have had in hand, 
that it might be crowned with abundant success. 

It is fitting, in conclusion, that I should allude to the great 
loss we have sustained by the death of one of the original 
members of our Board — a loss that can scarcely be estimated 
by those unacquainted with the labors, the duties and the 
responsibilities which fall upon one who occupied his posi- 
tion. Those labors and duties were always discharged by 
him with the most scrupulous exactness and with a care 
which could not have been excelled in the management of 
his private affairs. But it was not alone upon the University 
that the great loss fell. Distinguished in various walks of 
life, exceptionally skilled in the exercise of his chosen pro- 
fession, he acquired and maintained through life an enviable 
and commanding position. He was an accomplished scholar, 
an upright and large-hearted gentleman. We deeply realize 
our loss, but feel that ours is not comparable to that of 
his immediate family. They have our warmest sympathies. 

It now only remains for me in behalf of the Trustees to 
announce the University open and to welcome all those who 
desire to avail themselves of its benefits and advantages. 
We pray for the future success of the University which we 
now dedicate to science, letters, art and human progress in 
their best and highest forms. We invite the Divine aid ; 
and may the Giver of all good crown its efforts and labors 
with his constant and abundant blessing. 



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President G. Stanley Hall delivered an address, a part 
of which was as follows : 

We are here to mark in a simple way, as befits its dig-nity, 
a rare event which we hope and pray may prove not only the 
most important in the history of this favored city, but of for- 
ever growing significance for our state and nation, for cul- 
ture and humanity 

Just because, instead of the easy and wasteful task of re- 
peating what is already well done about us, we strive to take 
the inevitable next step and to be the first, if we can, upon 
the higher plane ; because we must study not only to utilize 
all available experience wherever we can, but to be wisely 
bold in innovations wherever we must; because there will 
be indifference and misconception from friends who do not 
see all the importance of our work at first ; because there ar# 
difficulties inherent in the very nature of that work itself as 
great as the work is needed; we must go slowly and surely, 
establishing but few departments at first, and when they are 
made the best possible, adding new and most related ones as 
fast as we can find the men and money to support them. We 
must prolong the formative period of foundation, and must 
each and every one realize well that we are just entering up- 
on years of unremitting toil, in which patience and hope will 
be tempered with trial. But our cause is itself an inspira- 
tion, for it is in the current of all good tendencies in higher 
education, and of the ultimate success of what is this day 
begun, there is not a shadow of doubt or fear. ... in 
the express exemption, too, of all instructors who can sus- 
tain the ardor of research from excessive teaching and exam- 
ination, in the appointment of assistants in a way to keep 
each member of the staff at his best work, and to avoid the 
too common and wasteful practice in American universities 
of letting four thousand dollar men do four hundred dollar 
work, in the ample equipment of each department, that no 
force be lost on inferior tools — in all these and many other 
respects the ideal of our founder has been to make every- 
where an independent application of the simplest and sever- 
est but also the largest principles of business economy. 

The university, which is entirely distinct from and higher 



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than any form of technical or prof essional instruction can be, 
should represent the state of science per se. It should be 
strong in those fields where science is highly developed, and 
should pay less attention to other departments of knowledge 
which have not reached the scientific stage. It should be 
financially and morally able to disregard practical application 
as well as numbers of students. It should be a laboratory 
of the highest possible human development in those lines 
where educational values are the criterion of what is taught 
or not taught, and the increase of knowledge and its diffusion 
among the few fit should be its ideal. As another puts it, 
" The more and better books, apparatus, collections and 
teachers, and the fewer but more promising students the better 
the work." In Europe, besides its duty to science the uni- 
versity must not fail of its practical duty to furnish to the 
state good teachers, preachers, doctors, advocates, engineers 
and technologists of various kinds. Here a university can, 
if it chooses, do still better and devote itself exclusively to 
the pure sciences. These once understood, their applications 
are relatively easy and quickly learned. The university 
must thus stand above, subordinate and fructify the practical 
spirit, or the latter will languish for want of science to 
apply. 

The important facts that are both certain and exact, and 
the completely verified laws, or well ordered, welded cohe- 
sion of thought that approach such mental continuity as 
makes firm, compactly woven intellectual or cerebral tissue, 
are so precious in our distracted and unsettled age, that it is 
no marvel that impartial laymen in all walks of life are 
coming to regard modern science in its pure high form as 
not only the greatest achievement of the race thus far, but 
also as carrying in it the greatest, though not yet well 
developed, culture power of the world, not only for knowl- 
edge but also for feeling and conduct. It is of this power 
that universities are the peculiar organs ; to them is now com- 
mitted the highest interests of man ; from them and from 
science now comes the light and advancement of the world. 
They became and remained the asylums of free thought and 
conviction when Rome and all other privileged orders 



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declined, and their germs were brought and piously and 
early planted on these shores by our fathers. The term is 
not only "the noblest in the vocabulary of science," but 
universities are the chief nurseries of talent, where is kept 
alive the holy fervor of investigation that in its passion for 
truth is fearless of consequences and has never been more 
truly and loftily ideal than now, when its objects of study 
are often most crassly material. It is their quality more 
than anything else that determines not only the status of the 
medical and all technological professions, but also whether the 
legal profession is formal, narrow, mercenary and unlearned 
as it seems now in danger of becoming, in Germany, because 
even the German universities, despite their great pre- 
eminence in all other respects, are by general consent of the 
most competent Germans themselves relatively weak ^n 
those departments which underlie the practice of law or 
broadly based on history and social or economic science, 
informed in administrative experience, and culminating in 
judicial talent and statesmanship. Universities largely deter- 
mine whether a land is cursed by a factious, superstitious, 
half-cultured clergy, or blessed by ministers of divine truth, 
who understand and believe the doctrines they teach ; who 
attract and enlarge the most learned, and penetrate the life 
of the poor and ignorant, quickening, comforting and inform- 
ing in a way worthy the Great Teacher himself ; and making 
their profession as it should be — the noblest of human 

callings. 

^ H< * * * 

Again, we apply science with great skill but create or 
advance it very little indeed. Should the supply of European 
science, which now so promptly finds its way here and ferti- 
lizes and stimulates to more or less hopeful reaction our best 
scholars, and upon which we live as upon charity, be cut off 
by some great war or otherwise, the unbalanced and short- 
sighted utilitarian tendencies now too prevalent here would 
tend toward the same stagnation and routine which similar 
tendencies unchecked long ago wrought out in China. 
^ * * * * 

The university problem seems to be fairly upon us. We 



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now need men in our chairs whose minds have got into inde- 
pendent motion; who are authorities and not echoes; who have 
the high moral qualities of plain and simple living and self- 
sacrificing devotion to truth, and who show to this community 
and the country the spectacle of men absorbed in and living 
only for pure science and high scholarship, and are not mere 
place-holders or sterile routine pedagogues, and all needed 
material support is sure to come Our plan in this re- 
spect implies a specialization as imperatively needed for the 
advanced students, as it would we admit, be unfortunate for 

students still in the disciplinary collegiate stage 

Perhaps the most thorough and comprehensive government 
reports ever made in any language are those of the English 
parliamentary commissioners on endowments. The first of 
these occupied nearly nineteen years and fills nearly two-score 
heavy folio volumes. In all, about twenty thousand founda- 
tions, new and centuries old, large and small, devoted to a 
vast variety of uses, good and questionable, were reported. 
The conclusions drawn from this field of experience, which is 
far richer and wider in England than elsewhere, was that of 
all the great popular charities, higher education has proven 
safest, wisest and best, and that for two chief reasons — first, 
because the superior integrity and ability of the guardians 
who consented to administer such funds, the intelligence and 
grateful appreciation of those aided by them, and the strong 
public interest and resulting publicity — all three combined to 
hold them perpetually truest to the purpose and spirit of 
the founders; and secondly, because in improving higher 
education, all other good causes are most effectively aided. 
The church can in no other way be more fundamentally 
served than by providing a still better training for her 
ministers and missionaries. Charity for hospitals and alms- 
houses is holy, Christ-like work, but to provide a better train- 
ing for physicians and ec9nomists, teaches the world to see 
and shun the causes of sickness and poverty. Sympathy 
must always tenderly help the feeblest and even the defect- 
ive classes, but to help the strongest in the struggle for ex- 
istence, is to help not them alone, but all others within their 
influence 



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Senator George F. Hoar made an address, of which the 
following is a part : 

An occasion so interesting as the opening of a university 
ought not to pass by without some word of public gratitude 
for the munificence that has founded it, some utterance of 
gratulation and good cheer for him who takes up the heavy 
burden of its administration, and some statement of the be- 
liefs, hopes and conditions, under which this community wel- 
comes it, and is willing to adopt it among its governing 
forces, to hold out a reasonable assurance of its support. 
When the purpose of Mr. Clark was first announced there 
were many people who thought it would have been better to 
enlarge the resources of some existing college. But, as his 
plans have gradually unfolded, such critics have become sat- 
isfied, not only that this university can do its work with(^t 
jar or friction with any other, but that the time has come 
when a work should be done in this country which it may not 
be wholly convenient for any other just now to undertake. 

It would be hard to state too strongly the title to public 
gratitude of a man who, after a life of extraordinary success 
in great business transactions, devotes the large fruits of that 
success to the benefit of his fellow men, even if that were all. 
Such benefactions, though hardly ever on so large a scale, 
are not unusual in this country. They seem in our day to be 
the congenial product of the American spirit. 

Kal o'lSe /xev Trpoin/KouTcos rfj -nSXei Tbroi^e eyivovro 

These places become the hallowed spots in the eyes of the 
nations, like the scenes of famous battles, or the places where 
the foundations of great states have been laid, or where great 
civic scenes have occurred, or the dwelling places or burial 
places of heroes or statesmen. Pilgrims from afar visit them. 
Foreign war spares them. They survive all changes of con- 
stitution or dynasty. International law throws its protection 
about them. In the bloodiest and angriest civil strifes men 

" Lift not their spears against the Muses' bower." 
'. Their pupils, scattered over the country, retain an attach- 
ment for them and for each other, which is to the college like 



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a coat of chain armor, and which is one of the strongest 
bonds of the national life itself 

But I find an especial sublimity in the purpose of the founder 
which gives this institution its distinctive peculiarity, cer- 
tainly among American institutions of learning. It seems to 
me very remarkable that a man whose own training and life, 
whose own disciplines and successes have been among what 
are called practical affairs, who in early life had so well known 
the need of the strict economies in which our fathers in New 
England brought up their children, should have conceived 
the plan of endowing an institution where the study of sci- 
ence for its own sake, as an end, and not as an instrument, 
should be the the leading object ; that he should have called 
into its service eminent scholars whose chief occupation is to 
be research rather than teaching ; and should have understood 
so perfectly that while waste and extravagance in the small- 
est things are not only wrong but criminal, the costliest man 
or equipment is often the cheapest, so the highest excellence 
cannot otherwise be attained. 

Those of us who have had any part in the organization of 
this undertaking well know that the man who founded it is 
still the wisest of its administrators. This whole people will 
join with them in the prayer that his life may be long spared 
to witness the growth of the tree he has planted, and to en- 
joy the gratitude of the youth whose lives he has blessed. 
As God denied children to Washington that his country 
might call him father, so, to our founder shall, through re- 
motest time, uncounted generations educated by his bounty, 
stand in the place of posterity. . . . 

It is doubted, also, whether, after all, science has any other 
proper function than that of the handmaiden of human life ; 
whether the need of this country be not still so great, both in 
the development of her vast resources, and in the competi- 
tion of her industries with those of other countries, of all the 
aid which science can lend her, that it is almost wasteful to 
use either the brains of her students or the resources of her 
capital, for any other object 

If we are able to bring here great and shining lights of 
science, who shall conduct their pupils along the attractive 



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paths of an original research, which they are to share and 
partake with each other, we have no fear that our youth will 
fail in gratitude and affection. The heart of no pupil of 
Agassiz is likely to grow cold toward the spot hallowed by 
the master's lessons. The thick warbled note of the Attic 
bird never failed to bring back the olive groves of Academe 
to the loving memory of the disciple of Plato. 

Let no man think that this university is to be indifferent to 
the moral or religious character of her children. She will 
signally fail in the judgment of those who expect most from 
her, if the truths to be revealed to those who study here shall 
fail to beget a spirit of child-like reverence in the presence of 
the Author of all truth, or if " by the unlocking of the gates 
of sense, and the kindling of a greater natural light, anything 
of incredulity or intellectual night shall grow up in thel^ 
minds toward divine mysteries." 

We do not exalt science above faith, or intellectual attain- 
ment above moral character. The child that has learned to 
govern its will by the golden rule, though it can scarce count 
its fingers, is higher in the scale of being than the astrono- 
mer who has not learned that lesson, though he know all 
Kepler's laws and have catalogued the stars. Our pupils 
will come here, mature in years, with characters largely 
formed. They will devote themselves to, and be absorbed 
by, the pursuit of truth. They will have for guides, com- 
panions, and masters men who will themselves be an exam- 
ple and an inspiration to all moral excellence. There is little 
danger that the tares will get into the measures that are 
already filled with wheat. 

Speaking now for myself alone, I have little sympathy with 
that arrogant and disdainful spirit with which some men who 
undertake, with little title, to represent science in this 
country, sneer at any attempt to make use of the forces she 
reveals to us for the service of mankind. Some one said 
the other day, that science was becoming a hod-carrier. I 
do not see why the term "hod-carrier" should express the 
relation rather than the term "benefactress," I do not see, 
either, that there is anything degrading in the thought that 
the knowledge of the learned man enables him to lift the 



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burden, beneath which humanity is bowed and bent. I do 
not know that science is exempt from the divine law, " He 
that is greatest among you, let him be the servant of all." 
If the great forces of the universe perform all useful offices 
for man, if the sunshine warm and light our dwellings, if 
gravitation move the world and keep it true to its hour, nay, 
if it keep the temple or cathedral in its place when the hod- 
carrier has builded it, I do not see why it should not lend its 
beneficent aid to him also. Our illustrious philosopher 
advised his countrymen to " hitch his wagon to a star." The 
star will move no less serenely on its sublime pathway when 
the wagon is hitched to it. I do not know that any arch- 
angel or goddess, however resplendent the wings, has yet 
been constructed or imagined without feet. I do not know 
that any archangel, however glorious, has ever been created 
or imagined without sympathy for suffering humanity. 

I look for great advantage to the country, both in wealth 
and power and in the comfort and moral improvement of the 
people by the application of science to the useful arts. 

But all this is very different from the hireling spirit, which 
loses all interest in the revelations of divine wisdom, but 
for the riches she displays in her left hand ; all this is very 
different from requiring of the investigator anything but the 
search for absolute truth. Agassiz, who had no time to make 
money, and who knew the rich treasures of the Calumet and 
Hecla mine, without caring to take advantage of them ; 
Henry, who knew the powers of magnetism years before 
Morse came with his harness for the steed, are still our best 
examples of the servant and teacher of science. 

So may this university of ours, modestly, yet hopefully, 
take its place in that lofty company. It will be a base thing 
if we let it fail. Massachusetts in her poverty and weakness 
created the common school and the college. She will dis- 
dain to fall behind other countries in the higher education 
which the new centuries require. 



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General Devens then called upon Rev. Edward Everett 
Hale, who said: 

"He wished he could have foreseen the establishment of such 
an institution, but he had not, though he could say that Amer- 
ica was doing wonderfully well for the Americans. It was 
in the education of rneji that there was a lack of facilities, es- 
pecially in the education of those just out of college. The 
progress of an education should not be broken short when a 
man has just found out what he wants ; when he has discov- 
ered what chemistry is, what the study of physics implies, 
and. so on. For this purpose, it was that Clark University 
has been organized. He said that he had been to many uni- 
versity commencements, but never before had he been pres- 
ent at the commencement of a university. The country does 
not know yet the meaning of the word university. Some* 
think of the city of Paris as a place where one goes to spend 
money for the opera, or where, if they were lucky, they might 
see a revolution. But its great university is the greatest 
thing in Paris. We go into our so-called universities and 
find professors explaining to the boys the diflEerence between 
the masculine and feminine genders. In the Paris Univer- 
sity the professors lecture to their equals ; in America it 

ought to be the same He felt that America 

ought to be able to teach Americans everything. It was 
true, though, that men like Agassiz were Swiss and had taught 
Americans, but he hoped that Clark University might turn 
out many like him, who should give heart and soul to the work 
of science." 



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FROM THE RECORDS OF THE TRUSTEES. 

Worcester, April 17, 1889. 

All the Trustees and President Hall were present at a meet- 
ing held this day at the house of Mr. Clark. 

The president of the University was present, and sub- 
mitted to the trustees a report on the subject of the, organi- 
zation of the same. 

Voted : — That this report of President Hall be accepted 
and placed on file, and that the recommendations therein be 
adopted. 

Voted : — That in accordance with said recommendations, 
the University begin by the establishment of five depart- 
ments in science, as follows : 

A Department of Mathematics, 
A Department of Physics, 
A Department of Chemistry, 
A Department of Biology, 
A Department of Psychology, 
and that the same be opened in October next. j: 

Voted : — That President Hall be requested to prepare and 
issue a Prospectus, based on the recommendations of his 
report. 

Worcester, May 23, 1889. 

A regular meeting of the board of trustees was held this 
day at 2.30 p. m. at the main building. 

Present: Messrs. Clark, Salisbury, Devens, Rice, Swan 
and Goulding, and President Hall. 

Mr. Rice was called to the chair. 

Records of the last meeting were read and approved. 

Mr. Clark as chairman of the finance committee, reported 
that of the $300,000 set apart as a building fund, $190,000 
have have been spent for the main building and that about 
$60,000 of this fund remain at this date unspent. 

It was then Voted : — That the finance committee be auth- 
orized to provide all instruments and all other material 
needed for the opening of the University in its variou.s 
departments. 



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On motion of Judge Devens it was then 

Voted : — That the duties of the president of the Univer- 
sity be defined as follows : 

The president of the University shall consult frequently 
with the trustees on all matters which concern the welfare of 
the University, and attend the meetings of the board. He 
shall confer with each instructor concerning the development 
of his department, determine the duties and authority of 
each, and preside at the meetings of the faculty. He shall 
be the authorized medium of communication between the 
board of trustees and the officers of instruction, individually 
and collectively, in all matters involving the administration 
of the University. The enactments of the board concerning 
instructors and their work and all requests, complaints and 
proposals from the faculty to the trustees shall be made 
known through him. He shall exercise or provide such 
superintendence over buildings, apparatus, books and other 
property as will secure their protection and appropriate use. 
Expenditures must not be ordered by any instructor of the 
University without his previous consent or the express 
authority of the board. 

At this meeting, on motion of Mr. Clark, it was 

Voted: — That the President of the University be, and 
hereby is, appointed Professor of Psychology, but without 
additional salary. 

The President was authorized to engage the following 
Professors and Instructors : 
H. H. Donaldson, 
W. P. Lombard, 

E. C. Sanford, 
A. A. Michelson, 

F. Mall. 

The salaries of the above Instructors and that of the Presi- 
dent were determined. 

President Hall submitted the following first official an- 
nouncement of the opening of the University. 



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Clark University — First Official Announcement. 
The Founder's Purpose. 

Clark University was founded by the munificence of a 
native of Worcester county, whose plans, conceived more 
than 20 years ago, have gradually grown with his fortune. 
His aflEairs have been so arranged as to allow long intervals 
for travel and study. During eight years thus spent, the 
leading foreign institutions of learning, old and new, were 
visited, and their records gathered and read. These 
studies centered about the means by which knowledge is in- 
creased and diffused, and by which the highest culture of one 
generation is best transmitted to the youths of the next. 
To the enlargement and improvement of these means the 
University will be devoted. 

It is the strong and expressed desire of the founder that 
the highest possible academic standards be here forever 
maintained ; that special opportunities and inducements be 
offered to research ; that to this end the instructors be not 
overburdened with teaching or examinations ; that all avail- 
able experience, both of older countries and our own be 
freely utilized, and that new measures, and even innovations 
if really helpful to the highest needs of modern science and 
culture, be no less freely adopted ; in fine, that the great 
opportunities of a new foundation in this land and age be 
diligently explored and improved. 

He has chosen Worcester as the seat of the new founda- 
tion after mature deliberation — first, because its location is 
central among the best colleges of the east, and by supple- 
menting rather than duplicating their work, he hopes to 
advance all their interests and to secure their good will and 
active support, that, together, further steps may be taken in 
the development of superior education in New England ; and 
secondly, because he believes the culture of this city will 
insure that enlightened public opinion always indispensable 
in maintaining these educational standards at their highest, 
and that its wealth will insure the perpetual increase of 
revenue required for the rapid progress of science. 

The organization of several of the departments was deter- 



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mined upon at some length at this important meeting and 
in the personnel of the appointees, the apparatus, the equip- 
ment of the laboratories, and in the announcements author- 
ized research and advanced work were primarily considered ; 
e.g., "A well-equipped laboratory of apparatus for research 
in the various departments of experimental psychology will 
also be opened in October. 

Opportunities for prompt publication of meritorious in- 
vestigations, together with digests of current literature in this 
department, will be found in the Arnerican Journal of Psychol- 
ogy, which is published under the editorial care of Dr. Hall. 

" The work of the psychological department is intended for 
the following classes of students: those who desire to teach 
philosophy in any, or all, of its departments; physicians who 
wish to become specialists in the treatment of insanity or ol 
diseases with nervous complications; those who desire to 
study education professionally (and who are advised to give 
most of their energy to psychology, which is its chief scien- 
tific basis, pedagogy being a field of applied psychology). 

Some of the special topics into which the work above 
naturally falls can be attended as a special course by stu- 
dents of other departments. 

' ' The organization of all of the above and of other depart" 
ments will be gradual, and the foundation-period of the Uni- 
versity will cover some years." 

METHODS. 

Besides field work, excursions to institutions public and 
private, coaching and cram-classes, examinations, conferences 
and other modes by which knowledge now seems best im- 
parted and retained, the following educational methods will 
probably be prominent: 

Semi7taries. These are stated, perhaps weekly, meetings, 
often in a department library, for joint, systematic, but con- 
versational work, under the personal direction of the professor, 
in some special chapter of his subject. Here the results of 
individual reading are reported for the benefit of all; views 
are freely criticised; new inquiries, methods, comparisons, 
standpoints, etc., suggested. From the mutual stimulus thus 



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given many important works hare proceeded, and the effi- 
ciency of universities, especially in Germany where semina- 
ries were first generally introduced, has been greatly increased. 

Laboratory Work. For beginners this was from the first 
the best of all forms of apprenticeship, bringing student and 
professor to a far closer and mutually stimulating relation. 
Here the manipulation of apparatus is learned, each well- 
chosen piece of which is an obvious epitome of long lines of 
research, processes are criticised, results obtained by other 
investigators are tested, methods are discussed and perfected. 
The modern laboratory has thus become an unexcelled school 
of logical mental discipline, from which is developed, as its 
best product, that rare independence in research which is the 
consummation of scientific culture. 

Lectures. The trustees desire that each instructor, of how- 
ever few students, should prepare and deliver regular lectures, 
with diagrams, illustrative apparatus and references to stand- 
ard textbooks, and the best current literature upon each topic. 
Advanced students and instructors will also be encouraged 
to supplement the work of the professors by giving special 
lectures and courses. Public lectures will from time to time 
be given. 

CLASSES OF STUDENTS. 

The following classes of students will be admitted : 

I. Independent Students. 

This class will include those who have already taken the 
doctorate or other academic degrees in this country or abroad, 
and others of sufficient training who have time that may be 
devoted to particular lines of study or research. 

For competent men of this class, individual arrangements 
may be made, and an independent room, and even special 
apparatus and books provided, that they may pursue their 
investigations, either alone or with the aid and counsel of 
the instructors, to the best advantage. 

" Conditions under which a few of the most advanced stu- 
dents of this class can be granted the venia docendi, as lectur- 
ers or docents, are under careful consideration. 



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" It is hoped that some of the permanent instructors of the 
University may be recruited from this class. 

" It is probable that a few of these mature students can be 
received not only in the five departments named above, but 
in others soon to be organized, and in the development of 
which they may co-operate." 

II. Candidates for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy. 

" Those qualified for this degree will be matriculated early 
in the fall, after suitable tests, which will also aid in determ- 
ining when they can be admitted to the final examination. 

"The full course provided for this class of students will be 
three years, but admission to advanced standing at the out- 
set is possible, and those found to be qualified may be 
allowed to take the doctor's examination in two years, or 
even one. 

"It is to the needs of these students that the lectures, sem- 
inaries, laboratories and collections of books and apparatus 
will be especially shaped, and no pains will be spared to 
afford them every needed stimulus and opportunity. It is 
for them that the fellowships and scholarships are primarily 
intended, although any of these honors may be awarded to 
students in classes I or III." 

III. Special students not candidates for a degree. 

"This class includes those who may desire to devote them- 
selves exclusively to one or more of the special branches — 
mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology or psychology — 
but who do not care to matriculate or become candidates for 
a degree. 

" These students, provided they satisfy the heads of depart- 
ments of their training and competency in one subject, in 
which they must be advanced (although they may be less so, 
or even beginners, in other subjects) may be allowed entire 
freedom in their choice and combination of studies, and, 
as special students, may enjoy all the privileges of the 
University. 

"Thus, students of sufficient preliminary training can be 
admitted to the departments of chemistry, biology, anatomy, 



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physiology and neurology, and receive here the purely sci- 
entific part of a medical education." 

IV. Preliminary candidates. 

"Non-university students of less special, or less advanced 
standing than the above four classes, who are nearly, but 
not quite, qualified to become candidates for the degree of 
doctor of philosophy, may also be received. 

" Students of this class must for the present have completed 
the work of the first three, or at least of the first two, years 
of a regular under-graduate course in a college of good stand- 
ing, or the equivalent thereof. They must satisfy the author- 
ities of the University that they can proceed to the degree of 
A. B. in one year and contemplate advancing to a higher 
degree. The privileges and status of these students will be 
more fully defined later. They may be elected to scholar- 
ships, but not to fellowships." 

FELLOWSHIPS AND SCHOLARSHIPS. 

To no form of educational gift or bequest have probably 
so many people contributed as to the various forms of indi- 
vidual aid to meritorious students. 

Under the names of bursaries, stipends, exhibitions, prizes, 
benefices, etc., as well as of scholarships and fellowships, 
the revenues of foundations established by and bearing the 
names of sometimes hundreds of donors in a single univer- 
sity, are annually distributed. 

Sometimes these funds were given by men or women 
themselves not far removed from need, and are appointed 
to furnish a student with firewood, a room, a bed, one daily 
meal, or a coat each year, etc., and sometimes yielding one 
or two thousand dollars to a single holder. Often many 
students were provided by a single donor, and some of these 
European foundations, even the smallest, are centuries old, 
so sacredly are they guarded, and others are even now being 
established. 

The more advanced the education the more such aids are 
needed, and the more numerous and substantial do they in 
fact become in Europe. 



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So great is now the need of bringing the best intellects to 
fullest maturity, and so increasingly necessary for the highest 
scientific attainment are now the leisure, tranquility, books 
and apparatus thus best supplied, that the demand is strong 
for still more and greater aids of this kind for advanced and 
competent students. 

Several of the wisest governments in Europe, recognizing 
that the modern world and its rulers are ruled by experts 
thus best trained, vie with private munificence in supplying 
such aids. 

With a deep sense of the peculiar needs of our country in 
this respect, the founder of this University and his wife have 
provided such opportunity and incentive here as follows : 

In addition to all previous gifts of the donor, and apart 
from the permanent funds of the University, full tuition ftf 
two hundred dollars each for thirty meritorious students will 
be paid into the treasury. For eight of these students, thus 
freed from tuition, Mr. Clark has also established fellowships 
yielding each holder four hundred dollars per annum, and 
eight more fellowships yielding each holder two hundred 
dollars per annum. These, with eight free scholarships as 
above provided, will be known as the Jonas G. Clark 
Fellowships and Scholarships respectively. 

Mrs. Clark has established two fellowships yielding four 
hundred each, and two fellowships yielding two hundred 
dollars each per annum. These with the two remaining 
scholarships, will be known as the Mrs. Jonas G. Clark 
Fellowships and Scholarships respectively. 

These six latter are especially provided for the depart- 
ment of psychology, while the 24 presented by Mr. Clark 
are to be distributed among the other four departments at 
the discretion of the president and faculty. 

The founder and his wife unite with the trustees and presi- 
dent in inviting sympathy and practical co-operation in the 
multiplication of such aids, large or small, temporary or 
permanent, here at the outset. 

Both scholarships and fellowships are open only to students 
in one or more of the five departments announced, and are 
renewable annually. They are designed to encourage prom- 



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ising- young men, graduates of colleges and others who have 
developed a preference for particular lines of study in which 
they desire to attain still further proficiency. 

While intended to remove pecuniary hindrances in the 
way of such students, both scholarships and fellowships are 
primarily honors, awarded without reference to pecuniary 
needs. Thus those desiring to do so may relinquish the 
emolument and retain the title of scholar and fellow. 

Residence in Worcester, during University sessions, and 
work under the general direction of the heads of depart- 
ments is required. Those appointed to these honors must, 
unless by special arrangement, be under the age of thirty- 
five, and must devote themselves to scientific or liberal, in- 
stead of to industrial or professional studies. They should 
work in a spirit of hearty co-operation with their instructors 
and of genuine devotion to science. 

Applications can now be received, and may be accompanied 
by diplomas, testimonials, and a brief statement of the 
course of study. Those applying for fellowships, especially 
of the first class, should also if possible, submit some spec- 
imen of their work, in writing or in print. 

Appointments will be made from time to time during the 
coming summer and fall. Private announcements will be 
sent to successful candidates, and no publicity will be given 
to the names of those not appointed. 

Beginning with the above paragraph on the duties of the 
president, what follows under the heading of Departments 
and Instructors, Methods, Classes of Students, Fellowships 
and Scholarships, etc., was not only entered in the proceed- 
ings of the board but has stood in the catalogue every year 
since the opening of the institution. 

G. Stanley Hall, 

President of Clark University. 

Voted : — That the form of this first official announcement, 
as above presented by the president be accepted, adopted 
and extended on the records. 



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Voted : — That the Faculty be authorized to allot fellow- 
ships and scholarships according to their best judgment. 
Adjourned. 

Frank P. Goulding, 

Secretary of the Corporation. 

Worcester, April 17, 1889. 

All the trustees were present at a meeting held this day at 
the home of Mr. Clark. 

September 26, 1889. 

Present : Messrs. Jonas G. Clark, Charles Devens, George 
F. Hoar, Stephen Salisbury, and Frank P. Goulding, and 
President Hall. 

The following appointments to the corps of instructor^ 
was ratified and approved: 
WilHam E. Story, 
Arthur Michael, 
C. O. Whitman, 
J. U. Nef, 
Oscar Bolza. 

President Hall's report on books and apparatus was ac- 
cepted and recorded. 

Preparations for the opening exercises were made. 

The following by-laws were unanimously adopted : 

1. The President of the University shall preside on all 
public academic occasions, shall direct the official corres- 
pondence, study the wants and interests of the whole Uni- 
versity and exercise a general superintendence over all its 
concerns. His first care, and that of the authorities of the 
University, shall be the departments already established, and 
next those closely related to them ; but no other department 
shall be established until those already introduced have been 
brought to the highest state of efficiency then possible. All 
acts, however, which shall involve the expenditure of money 
in the administration of the University's affairs, shall be sub- 
ject to the approval of the Board of Trustees or the Finance 
Committee for the time being. 



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2. As the efficiency of the University depends chiefly upon 
the quality of its Faculty, the Board of Trustees will hold the 
President to a strict but reasonable accountability for the 
fidelity and ability of each instructor. The President only 
shall have the power to select and appoint all officers of in- 
struction, subject to the approval of the Board of Trustees. 
To make wise and well considered appointments, to maintain 
harmony within the Faculty and to increase their efficiency 
in research and instruction shall be his most important duty. 
If at any time the President shall be negligent in the dis- 
charge of these or other duties, or is from any cause disabled 
from discharging them, they may be exercised by the Board 
of Trustees. 

3. The President of the University shall be the medium 
of communication between the Trustees and Instructors, in- 
dividually and collectively, upon all matters within the field 
of action of either body. He shall attend all meetings of the 
Board of Trustees, of which he shall be notified, and shall 
participate in their deliberations, but without the power to 
vote. All complaints and requests from members of one 
body to the other shall be made through him. 

4. The President shall call and preside over all official 
meetings of the Instructors, and a record of their proceedings 
shall be kept. These records are in no case to be made known 
to others than the Trustees. They shall always be in the 
custody of the President, but may be inspected by the Trus- 
tees, or either of them at any time. 

5. The President of the University, in the absence of the 
Trustees or Finance Committee, shall have the entire direc- 
tion and control of the persons employed about the Univer- 
sity, and not engage in the work of instruction ; the duties of 
all such persons shall be assigned, and they shall be appointed 
or removed by him, subject to the approval of the Finance 
Committee. 

6. No Instructor shall order any books or apparatus, or 
any thing connected with the work of instruction, without 
the approval of the President. No expense for the care of 
building or grounds, nor for alterations or repairs within and 
upon the same shall be made without the approval of the 



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Board of Trustees or the Finance Committee, such altera- 
tions or repairs in no case to exceed the appropriations made 
for that purpose. If the Trustees or Finance Committee, or 
any person shall make contracts in behalf of the University 
without authority, the officer or person making such contract 
shall become individually responsible therefor. 

7. The officers of instruction shall be appointed for a term 
of from one to five years. At the end of this period the work 
of each Instructor will be subjected to a careful scrutiny upon 
the results of which his reappointment will depend, always 
provided, however, that any Instructor will be liable to be 
discharged at any time for incapacity, neglect of duty, or for 
such other cause as shall seem good to the Trustees. 

8. Each Instructor shall give stated lectures to however 
few. He shall actively and zealously strive to maintain tl|p 
highest possible standard, shall work in a spirit of hearty 
sympathy and co-operation, and shall encourage research by 
precept, and if possible, by example. 

9. The foregoing By-Laws are intended to embody the 
provisions contained in a vote passed by the corporation on 
the twenty-third day of May, A. D. 1889, upon the motion of 
Judge Devens. If at any time hereafter any discrepancy 
shall be found to exist between the two, said By-Laws shall 
be so far modified as to conform to the provisions of said 
vote. 

10. No Instructor shall engage in any outside professional 
or technical pursuit without the approval of the Board, the 
Finance Committee or the President. 

11. These By-Laws, or any one of them, may be changed, 
amended or repealed by a vote of three-fourths at least of 
the Trustees at any meeting of their Board duly called, 
notified and held for that purpose. 

At this meeting it was 

Voted: — To establish the grade of docent and to define 
its functions as follows : 

The highest annual appointment is that of docent. This 
rank and title is primarily intended as an honor to be awarded 
to those worthy of more permanent and lucrative positions, 



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as professors, or assistant professors in colleges. It may be 
bestowed without examination upon a few men who have 
advanced beyond the requirements of a doctorate and who 
satisfy the authorities of the University by a thesis, a public 
address or in any other way, of both their scientific attain- 
ments and their teaching ability, and, if necessary, may be 
accompanied by a salary. 

Docents may be provided with individual rooms, a special 
apparatus may be purchased for their research if desired and 
approved. They may also be equipped and sent on scien- 
tific expeditions. While they will be expected during some 
part of the year to deliver a limited number of lectures on 
some special chapter of their department, their time will 
usually be reserved for study and research in a way best 
adapted to qualify them still more fully for academic ad- 
vancement. 

It is believed that by the existence of such a select body 
of men of guaranteed scientific training and ability and 
approved power to teach, that the difficulties under which 
college trustees sometimes succumb in selecting suitable 
men as their professors may be diminished and that other- 
wise this new academic grade will aid in raising standards 
of scientific scholarship in colleges and in encouraging scien- 
tific research. 

October 2, 1889. 

A meeting was called by order of the president of the 
board, the following named being present : 

Jonas G. Clark, Charles Devens, George F. Hoar, John D. 
Washburn, W. W. Rice, Stephen Salisbury, George Swan, 
Frank P. Goulding and G. Stanley Hall. 

Edward Cowles, M. D., of Somerville, Mass., was unani- 
mously elected by ballot of trustees to fill the vacancy 
caused by the death of Joseph Sargent, M. D. 

Voted : — That Jonas G. Clark be appointed Treasurer, and 
James P. Hamilton of the Worcester National Bank, Cashier. 

April 11, 1890. 
A meeting was held at the house of Mr. Clark. 
Present : Messrs. Clark, Devens, Rice, Cowles, Salisbury, 
Swan, Goulding and President Hall. 



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On motion of Judge Devens it was 

Voted: — To authorize the president and finance commit- 
tee to engage .men to strengthen the present departments 
and add others to the extent of the means provided for that 
purpose. 

On motion of Judge Devens it was 

Voted : — As the work of the University increases its settled 
policy shall be always, to first strengthen departments al- 
ready established until they are as thorough, as advanced, as 
special, and as efficient as possible, before proceeding to the 
establishment of new ones. 

When this is done and new departments are established, 
those shall always be chosen first which are scientifically 
most closely related to departments already established, 
that the body of sciences here represented may be kept vi|;- 
orous and compact, and that the strength of the University may 
always rest, not upon the number of subjects nor the breadth 
or length of its curriculum, but upon its thoroughness and 
its unity. 

This shall in no wise hinder the establishment, by other 
donors than the Founder, of other and more independent 
departments, if approved by the trustees. 

While ability in teaching shall always be held in great 
importance, the leading consideration in all engagements, 
reappointments and promotions, shall be the quality and 
quantity of successful investigations. 

Among the by-laws adopted at this meeting for the admin- 
istration of the University, the following is the ninth : 

9. The Trustees desire that no Instructor, Docent, or 
Fellow, shall enter upon other engagements outeide his 
proper work in the University, of a kind or amount likely to 
lessen his full efficiency for science within the University. 

Voted : — That the following announcement be adopted : 

Only graduate students are admitted, or those of equiv- 
alent attainments, unless in rare and special cases. At 
present no entrance examinations are required, but, by testi- 
monials, diplomas, personal interviews, or written specimens 
of work, the authorities must be satisfied that the applicant 
has scholarship enough to work to advantage, and zeal and 



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ability enough to devote himself to his chosen field. The 
methods of the University, its energy and funds are too 
precious to be spent upon men who are not promising and 
in earnest. 

It is highly desirable that candidates entering any of the 
five departments should have, besides a knowledge of the 
subjects taught in college, a reading knowledge of French 
and German. 

Degrees. Doctor of Philosophy. 

For most candidates just from college, three years of 
post-graduate study will probably be required for this degree, 
but it may be conferred at any time when merited in the judg- 
ment of the University authorities. For this degree a 
reading knowledge of French and German, an examination 
and a thesis are indispensable. The thesis must be on an 
approved subject, to which it must be an original contribution 
of value, must be reported on in writing by the chief instruc- 
tor in the department, printed in whole or in part at the 
expense of the candidate and one hundred copies given to 
the University. 

For the bestowal of this degree the approbation of the 
board of trustees must in each case be obtained, who desire 
the standard requirements for it to be kept the highest prac- 
ticable, that it may be reserved for men of superior ability 
or attainment only, and that its value here be never suffered 
to depreciate. 

Fellowships at Clark University are intended for young 
men of promise who desire to pursue post-graduate studies 
in order to fit themelves for intellectual careers. It is desir- 
able, but not required, that candidates for these positions 
should intend to proceed to the degree of Doctor of Philos- 
ophy or to equivalent attainments. In general, those in- 
tending to represent some special branch of learning are 
preferred to those directly fitting themselves for one of the 
three learned professions, although the latter are not excluded. 

Applications should state the candidate's course of study 
and be accompanied by testimonials or diplomas; should 
indicate a decided preference for some special department, 



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and if possible, be accompanied by some specimen of his 
work for the aid of the board of selection. 

Applications will be considered in June and in October, 
and should be in the hands of the president on or before the 
first of these months. In special cases, vacancies may be 
filled by appointments at any time during the year. 

The names of unsuccessful candidates will not be made 
public. 

Fellows must reside in Worcester duringf the acadeniic 
year and devote themselves to special studies under the 
direction of their instructors, and must give such evidence 
of progress of proficiency before the end of the year as the 
authorities may require. They must co-operate in promoting 
order and the ends of the University, must not teach else- 
where and may be reappointed at the end of the year. • 

Docents. The highest annual appointment is that of docent. 
These positions are primarily honors and are reserved for 
a few men whose work has already marked a distinct advance 
beyond the doctorate, and who wish to engage in research. 

These positions are now official appointments. Appointees, 
or others found worthy, however, may be formally invested 
with the licentia decendi, the terms of which can now be 
furnished on application and a memoir or essay representing 
original work in their own department, but without examin- 
ation. This highest academic honor will be strictly reserved 
for those of marked scientific attainment and teaching ability, 
and, so far as this diploma can have the significance of a 
title or degree, it will be regarded by the University as a 
brevet collegiate professorship. 

Good men of this class are desired by the University 
above all others and may even be paid a salary. 

April 4, 1891. 

Present: Messrs. Hoar, Salisbury, Rice, Goulding, Swan 
and Cowles, and President Hall. 

This was the first meeting of the Board since its organiza- 
tion at which Mr. Clark was absent. 

Voted : — To approve revised regulations for the Doctor's 
degree, suggested by Dr. Hall, which are as follows : 



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It is probable in most cases that three, or at least two, 
years of graduate work, will be necessary for this degree. 
Examinations for it, however, may be taken at any time 
when in the judgment of the University authorities the can- 
didate is prepared. A prearranged period of serious work 
at the University itself is indispensable. 

For this degree the first requirement is a thesis upon an 
approved subject, to which it must be an original contribution 
of value. To this capital importance is attached. It must 
be reported on in writing by the chief instructor, printed at 
the expense of the candidate, and at least one hundred copies 
given to the University. In case, however, of theses of very 
unusual length, or containing plates of unusual expensive- 
ness, the academic senate shall have power, at the request 
of the candidate, to reduce the number of presentation copies 
to fifty. Each of these copies shall bear upon it, in print, 
the statement of the chief instructor that it is a thesis for the 
doctor's degree in his department at Clark University. 

Such formal or informal tests as the academic senate shall 
determine shall mark the acceptance of each student or fel- 
low as candidate. 

One object of this preliminary test shall be to insure a good 
reading knowledge of French and German. Such formal 
candidature shall precede by not less than three months, and 
not more than one year, the examination itself, and the nature 
and result of this test shall be made matter of record. 

The fee for the Doctor's degree is $25.00, and in every 
case it must be paid, and the presentative copies of the thesis 
must be in the hands of the Librarian before the diploma is 
given. In exceptional cases, however, and by special action 
of the senate, the ceremony of promotion may precede the 
presentation of the printed copies of the thesis. The latter, 
however, must always precede the actual presentation of the 
diploma. 

An oral but not a written examination is required upon at 
least one minor subject in addition to the major before an 
examination jury, composed of at least four members includ- 
ing the head of the department and the President of the Uni- 
versity who is authorized to invite any person from within or 



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without the University to be present and to ask questions. 
The jury shall report the results of the examination to the 
senate who, if they are also satisfied, may recommend the 
candidate for the degree. 

April 8, 1891. 

Adjourned meeting. Present: Messrs. Hoar, Salisbury, 
Rice, Goulding and Swan, and President Hall. 

The following letter from Mr. Clark was read and recorded : 

President G. Stanley Hall and Trustees 
OF Clark University, 
Gentlemen : 
I very much regret my inability to meet you on our second 
anniversary, but it seems prudent for me to remain quiet. 

We send you a hearty greeting and authorize you to say 
that Mrs. Clark and myself will contribute fifty thousand dol- 
lars to the University which you can place to the general 
account and use the same where it is most needed. 
Yours most respectfully, 

Jonas G. Clark. 
39 Elm St., Oct. 4th, 1890. 

May 19, 1891. 

A regularly called meeting was held at the Worcester 
National Bank. 

Present: Messrs, Clark, Hoar, Salisbury, Rice and Gould- 
ing, and President Hall. 

This was the last meeting ever attended by Mr. Clark. 

Mr. Hoar presented the following letter to Mr. Clark on 
the occasion of his proposed journey to Europe : 

Worcester, Mass., May 11th, '91. 

Jonas G. Clark, Esq., 

Worcester, Mass. 

Dear Mr. Clark : 

Your associates, the members of the Board of Trustees 

of the University which bears your name, desire to express 

to you their earnest hope that the journey you are about 

to undertake may be in all respects fortunate, and that you 



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may return with your health completely restored, and may 
be spared for many years to give to the University the benefit 
of your wisdom and experience. 

It seems to us that there is most abundant reason for 
congratulation and satisfaction in the history of the institu- 
tion thus far. The most eminent scholars, not only in this 
country but in Europe, have testified their approbation of its 
plan so far as it has been developed. Other institutions, 
including the foremost in this country, are watching it, 
eager to adopt its ideas, and are endeavoring (some of 
them) to tempt from its service the distinguished schol- 
ars whom it has engaged. Among the many evidences 
of this success one of the most striking is the statement 
made by an Overseer of Harvard University that the endow- 
ment had already done more good to Harvard alone than 
would have been accomplished if it had been given to Har- 
vard. When we consider that the great care which has been 
taken to make no mistake in laying deeply and wisely the 
foundation of Clark University has not permitted a constant 
advertisement beforehand, or taking the public into full 
confidence until the wisdom of the purposes of the Founder 
had been made manifest by the accomplishment of results, 
it seems to us that the position it has gained in public esteem 
is very remarkable. We hope you will not permit yourself 
to doubt for a moment the deep and strong hold you have 
upon the public gratitude as one of the very foremost among 
public benefactors. 

Renewing the expression of our hope for the success of 
your journey, and for the health and happiness of Mrs. Clark, 
we remain, 

Your friends and colleagues, 

George F. Hoar, 
W. W. Rice, 
Frank P. Goulding, 
George Swan, 
Stephen Salisbury. 

Ordered: — That the above letter be spread upon the 
records of the corporation. 



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Mr. Clark then presented the following letter, which was 
ordered to be entered upon the records. 

Worcester, April 1, 1891. 

To THE Trustees of Clark University, 
Gentlemen : 

I have obtained in the interests of the University the 
following securities, and now offer the same for your accept- 
ance. If accepted by you, the transfer of these securities to 
be upon the following specified conditions, viz.: 

They are to be endorsed on my note of $700,000.00 under 
date of April 1, 1891 :— 

Accrued interest on each one to that date to be paid to me 
when collected: — 

All interest paid upon each one from that date with matur- 
ity over four per cent, per annum to be paid to me or my 
estate as partial indemnity for extra premium paid by me. 

A list of the securities follows. 

At this meeting Mr. Clark resigned his office as treasurer, 
and presented the following letter : 

Worcester, May 12, 1891. 

Trustees of Clark University, 
Gentlemen : 
Mrs. Clark and myself will contribute for Fellowships, 
Scholarships, and to the General Fund for the next academic 
year, commencing October first. 

($2,000) two thousand dollars per month: 
$3,000 for department of Morphology, $1,000 for depart- 
ment of Physics, $1,000 for department of Pedagogy, $1,000 
for department of Psychology, making in all ($30,000) thirty 
thousand dollars. 

Respectfully yours, 

Jonas G. Clark. 

By L. C. M. 

Voted : — That the thanks of the Trustees be presented to 
Mr. and Mrs. Clark for their generous gift, and that the same 
be gratefully accepted. 



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May 25, 1891. 

Present: Messrs. Hoar, Salisbury, Rice, Gage and Swan, 
and President Hall. 

It was 

Voted :— That it is the mind of the Board that the present 
departments of the University should be sustained to the full 
limit of the funds available for the coming year. 

December 3, 1891. 

Present: Messrs. Hoar, Salisbury, Rice, Gage, Washburn, 
Cowles and Goulding, and President Plall. 

Voted unanimously : — That it is the determination of the 
Board to maintain the present high standard of University 
work in the Institution in all the departments which our re- 
sources shall enable us to maintain at all. 

April 9, 1892. 

Present: Messrs. Rice, Gage, Goulding, Swan and Salis- 
bury, and President Hall. 

A letter from Mr. Clark, dated Nice, March 19, 1892, in 
which he says : 

I do not care to make a pledge for a term of years, but 
Mrs. Clark and myself will contribute for next year, $1,500 
per month, commencing Oct, 1st, 1892. 

At this meeting it was 

Resolved: — That the trustees have learned from time to 
time of the unusual diligence and success in research of As- 
sistant Professor Nef, and take occasion, near the close of 
his first term of appointment, to express and record their 
satisfaction that the University has been able to aid him by 
the appointment of a research assistant and by exemption 
from excessive teaching, to opportunities that have been so 
fully utilized, both by the rapid growth of his own scientific 
power and standing, and by the value of his special contribu- 
tions to science, both of which have brought credit to his 
department of the University among the chemists of the 
world. 

June 10, 1893. 

Present: Messrs. Hoar, Rice, Salisbury, Washburn, Cowles, 
Swan, Gage and Goulding, and President Hall. 



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A communication addressed to the president and trustees 
from twenty-three scholars and fellows was presented. 

Voted: — That the said communication be recorded and 
placed on the records. 

It is as follows : — 

To THE President and Trustees 

OF Clark University: 

As fellows and scholars in Clark University during this 
the fourth year of its work, we feel that we cannot allow the 
year to close without some expression of our appreciation 
of the privileges that have been accorded us. 

The uniform kindness and attention of the president and 
the staff of professors and other instructors, and the readiness 
with which they have at all times given encouragement and 
direction to our efforts, have largely facilitated the worE 
with which we have been occupied and have given us an 
interest and enthusiasm which could not otherwise have been 
attained. We have acquired an increased love of science 
for its own sake, and such an interest in all educational 
questions as comes only from contact with men who are 
broad and sympathetic, and who are thoroughly informed on 
all movements for the advancement of human knowledge. 

The facilities here furnished for study and research, the 
ready access to all books and apparatus, the freedom from 
mere routine duties and those restricting regulations which 
are necessary in institutions embracing an under-graduate 
department, the direct contact with the instructors, which is 
possible only when the number of students is small, all tend, 
in our opinion, to make Clark University an ideal place for 
the true student, and to render his work the best that he is 
capable of accomplishing. 

July 9. 1900. 

Present: Messrs, Hoar, Salisbury, Gage, Goulding and 
Cowles, and President Hall. 

It was 

Voted : — The trustees hope and expect to go on with the 
work of the University, according to the scheme heretofore 
pursued, and with a wider efficiency and usefulness. 



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WILL OF JONAS G. CLARK. 



Know al! men by these presents: Thati, jONAS 

G. CLARK, of the City of Worcester, in the County of Wor- 
cester, in Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Gentleman, being 
in the enjoyment of my ordinary and accustomed health, and 
in the possession of a sound and disposing mind, memory and 
understanding, do make, publish and declare this Instrument 
to be my last will and testament, hereby revoking and declar- 
ing null and void, any and all former wills, or instruments in 
the nature of a will, by me at any time heretofore made, that 
is to say : — 

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ITEM FIRST. I direct that all my just and legal debts, 
if any I have, all my funeral expenses, and all necessary proper 
and reasonable costs and charges, incurred in any way in the 
settlement of my business affairs, and in carrying into execu- 
tion the several provisions and trusts contained and set forth 
in this present Instrument, including the sums hereinafter pro- 
vided to be paid to my several executors for personal services 
in the execution of the trusts hereby committed to them, be 
first paid out of my estate and the proceeds thereof. 

ITEM SECOND. All of my wardrobe of every descrip- 
tion, together with all my jewelry, watches and ornaments of 
the person ; also, all of my horses, carriages, sleighs, harness, 
robes and other articles and furnishings appertaining to, or 
ordinarially used in connection with my said horses, carriages, 
&c. , whatsoever the same may be, or however named or de- 
scribed, I give and bequeath unto my dear wife, Susan W. 
Clark, for her own sole and absolute use and benefit forever. 

ITEM THIRD. I also give and bequeath unto my said 
wife, Susan W. Clark, the sum of fifty thousand dollars for 
her sole use ; the same to be paid over to her by my executors 
hereinafter named, as soon as the same can conveniently be 
done, in the course of the settlement of my estate, and within 



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one year from the date of the probate of this Instrument, to- 
gether with interest thereon from the date of such probate. 

ITEM FOURTH. I also give, devise and bequeath unto 
my said wife, Susan W. Clark, the absolute control, use, im- 
provement and income of my homestead estate, situated on Elm 
Street, in the City of Worcester aforesaid, with all of the privi- 
leges, appurtenances and easements of every kind, in any way 
thereto appertaining or belonging ; also, of all my household 
furniture, plate, linen, china, house adornments, including my 
library, paintings, pictures and all other works of Art, whatso- 
ever the same may be, and all other movable chattels of a kin- 
dred character, which may be in, around or about my said 
Homestead estate, and used and enjoyed in connection there- 
with, and of which I may be possessed at the time of my de- 
cease : — To have and to hold the same to her, the said Susan 
W. Clark, and the entire control, use, benefit and income 
thereof, free from all taxes, insurance and repairs of every kind, 
(which I will and direct to be paid by my executors, or those 
having the settlement of my affairs, out of my estate) for and 
during her natural life. 

ITEM FIFTH. I give and bequeath unto my executors 
hereinafter named, the sum of four hundred thousand dollars, to 
have and to hold the same unto them and their executors, ad- 
ministrators and assigns. In trust, however, in the manner, 
upon the terms and conditions, and for the uses and purposes 
following, and none other whatsoever, to wit : — 

1. The same to hold, manage, invest and reinvest from 
time to time, in real estate, bonds, mortgages, and such other 
secureties as shall yield the largest amount of income con- 
sistent with entire and absolute safety to the principal. 

2. The income thereof, to pay over to my said wife, 
Susan W. Clark, at such times as shall be most agreeable 
to her, or shall best suit her convenience, and as she may call 
for the same, for and during her life, and also the sum of fifteen 



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hundred dollars per month of the principal thereof during her 
life, if she may call for the same, 

3. I make the above provision for my wife so that she 
may be able to contribute to Clark University, or to assist any 
of the Departments thereof she may wish to encourage or 
support. Our contributions for those purposes have heretofore 
been mutual, and I can only advise her to do what she can for 
them in the future in case that University receives substantial 
encouragement from the People or otherwise as I have herein- 
after indicated and provided. Otherwise. I wish her to feel 
perfectly free to make such use of this fund and the interest 
provided for her in this Item of my will as she may deem best, 
as I wish that no restrictions be placed upon her as to the 
manner in which she may desire to use this money. ^ 

4. If the income of said fund shall be more in amount 
than my said wife, Susan W, Clark shall require or shall 
call for, or if at the end of any year a balance thereof shall 
require or shall call for, or if at the end of any year a balance 
thereof shall remain in the hands of said executors which she 
does not desire to draw and use, then I will and direct them to 
add the same to the principal sum to become a part thereof. 

5. At the decease of my said wife, Susan W. Clark, 
I will and direct said executors to carry whatever may remain 
in their hands of said fund unexpended, whether principal or 
interest to the residuary portion of my estate and as such to be 
disposed of in the manner hereinafter provided. 

ITEM SIXTH. . It has been my first and chief aim and 
object as it has been my highest pleasure, to make full ample 
and generous provision for the support and maintenance of my 
said wife, Susan W. Clark, and to contribute in every way 
to her highest comfort, and to promote, as far as may be in 
my power, her permanent wellbeing during her life. And it 
has been particularly my purpose and desire to do it in such 
a manner, that she may be relieved from all care and anxiety, 
annoyance and responsibility in the matter, and without impos- 



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iog Upon her, at any time, any labor, trouble, or thought in 
the management and care of property, or giving her any solici- 
tude whatever. To effect this purpose, and to insure the 
accomplishment of the wish I have in mind, I have deemed 
the sum named in the preceeding Item to be far larger than 
would be sufl&cieut to that end. And still further as the object 
to which I have devoted and still intend to devote the larger 
bulk of my propert}'^ by the provisions hereinafter contained 
meets with her hearty approval and concurrent support, so 
that the gifts in that regard are, in soms sense our joint acts, 
I have the fullest confidence that she will agree with me that it 
would be unwise to increase this fund for her benefit or disposal 
and thus to some extent perhaps postpone or delay the execu- 
tion of the main purpose we have in view. And in this con- 
nection it seems proper for me to say, that I desire my said 
executors, in setting apart the portion of my estate which is to 
constitute the fund named in the Fifth Item, for the benefit 
andfdisposal of my said wife, to select at their market value, 
the best and most reliable securities which I may have on hand 
at the time of my decease, rather than to invest said fund in 
new secu reti es. 

ITKM SEVENTH. If from any reverses or misfortunes 
or from any cause or accident whatever, my estate shall prove 
insufficient to pay all of the legacies, bequests and devises 
herein contained for the purposes named, then I will and 
direct that all of the sums named in the preceding Items to be 
paid, and all of the provisions therein contained for the benefit 
and disposal of my said wife, Susan W. Ci<ark, shall be fully 
performed and carried out to the absolute exclusion of all of 
the other legacies, bequests and devises herein contained. 

ITEM EIGHTH. The foregoing provisions for the 
benefit of my said wife, Susan W. Clark, are intended to be 
in lieu of all dower or right of dower and homestead exemption 
in any of the real estate of which I may die seized or possessed, 
and of all claim to any distributive share in the personal estate 
of which I may be possessed at the time of my decease. But 



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if she shall elect to waive the said provisions of this my will 
made in her behalf, and to take portion of my property and 
estate to which she would be entitled in that event, under the 
Statutes of this Commonwealth of Massachusetts, thus render- 
ing said provisions inoperative, an event which I do not by 
any means expect to anticipate, then in addition to the portion 
of my estate she would receive, I will and direct her to have 
the various articles given and bequeathed to her in and by the 
Second Item of this my will, as fully and absolutely as she 
would have received the same if she had made no such waiver 
or election ; and I will and direct that such waiver and election . 
if made, shall in no sense have any effect upon said second 
Item, but that my executors deliver to her without delay or 
question the various articles therein set forth or referred to. 

« 
ITEM NINTH. Unto my brother Appleton Clark, 
of Cambridge, in the County of Middlesex and Commonwealth 
aforesaid I give and bequeath the sum of twenty thousand 
dollars for his own use, 

ITEM TENTH. I direct my exeutors hereinafter named 
to pay to my eldest sister, Caroline E. Waite, of Hub- 
bardston in said County of Worcester, the widow of the late 
Alson Waite, out of the income of any moneys in their 
hands not specifically appropriated otherwise b)' the provisions 
of this Instrument, or in default of such income, then out of 
any moneys in their hands and not hereinbefore specifically 
appropriated, the sum of six hundred dollars per annum, in 
quarter yearly payments, during her life. And in this con- 
nection it seems proper for me to say that I have made this 
yearly payment no larger for the reason that in the division of 
our Father's estate I waived my claim to my share therein, in 
my said sister's favor, and she received the same. 

ITEM ElyEVENTH. I give and bequeath unto my 
sister Abbie AllEN of Agawam, in the County of Hampden 
in the Commonwealth aforesaid, the wife of Elijah D. Allen, 
the sum of Ten thousand dollars for her sole use. 



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ITEM TWELFTH. I give and bequeath unto my 
brother Leonard Ci<ark, of Springfield, in said County of 
Hampden, the sum of Twenty thousand dollars for his own 
sole use and benefit forever. 

ITEM THIRTEENTH. I give and bequeath unto my 
brother Sumner Clark of Agawam aforesaid, the sum of 
sixteen thousand dollars, for his sole use and benefit. 

ITEM FOURTEENTH. I give and bequeath unto my 
nephew Charles H. Clark, the son of my said Brother 
Leonard Clark, and now in the service of the government, 
the sum of five thousand dollars, of which I ask his acceptance 
as a mark of my warm approval of the course persued by him 
in his life, to the presnt time. 

ITEM FIFTEENTH. Unto my niece Adelphia Clark, 
of Hubbardston, in said County of Worcester, the daughter of 
my deceased brother Simpson Clark, I give and bequeath the 
sum of two hundred dollars for her own use and benefit. 

ITEM SIXTEENTH. Unto my nephew George Clark, 
of Worcester, aforesaid, the son of my deceased brother Simpson 
Clark, I give and bequeath the sum of four hundred dollars 
for his own use. 

ITEM SEVENTEENTH. Unto my nephew Simpson 
Clark, of Springfield, aforesaid, the son of my deceased 
Brother Simpson Clark, I give and bequeath the sum of four 
hundred dollars, for his own use. 

ITEM EIGHTEENTH. Unto William L. Clark, 
my nephew, and the son of my brother William S. Clark, late 
of Hubbardston, aforesaid, deceased, I give and bequeath the 
sum of four hundred and fifty dollars, for his sole use and benefit. 

ITEM NINETEENTH. I give and bequeath unto each 
of the two children of Albert Clark, the son of my brother. 



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WiLi^iAM S. Clark, which son married Miss McFarling, the 
sum of two hundred dollars. 



ITEM TWENTIETH. I give and bequeath unto 
Charles Davis, the son of Elizabeth Clark, the daughter 
of my said Brother, William S. Clark, the sum of two hun- 
dred dollars. 

ITEM TWENTY-FIRST. I give and bequeath unto 
Anthony F. Clark, the sum of one thousand dollars in case 
he is in my employ at the time of my death. 

ITEM TWENTY-SECOND. I give and bequeath unto 
the Washburn Memorial Hospital, in the said city of Worcesterij^ 
and of which I am one of the Trustees, the sum of one thousand 
dollars. 

ITEM TWENTY-THIRD. I give and bequeath unto 
the Old Men's Home in the said city of Worcester, and of 
which I am one of the Trustees, the sum of five hundred dollars. 



ITEM TWENTY-FOURTH. I give and bequeath unto 
the Orphans Home on Main street near Oriad street, in the 
said city of Worcester, the sum of five hundred dollars. 



ITEM TWENTY-FIFTH. I give and bequeath unto 
the Hubbardston Town I,ibrary, the sum of five hundred dol- 
lars, to be added to its endowment fund and subject to the 
same conditions as that fund is subject to ; the interest thereof 
to be added to the principal until the required amount provided 
in and by those conditions is reached. 

ITEM TWENTY-SIXTH. I give and bequeath unto 
the New England Historic and Genealogical Society, of No. 12 
Somerset street, Boston, Massachusetts, the sum of one thousand 
dollars. 



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ITEM TWENTY-SEVENTH. I will and direct that all 
of the legacies contained in Items Ninth to Twenty-first herein, 
both inclusive, shall be paid by my executors as soon as the 
same can conveniently be done in the course of the settle- 
ment of my estate, and within one year from the date of the pro- 
bate of this m}^ will. And if my estate shall prove insufficient to 
pay them in full, after providing for the payment of the legacies 
mentioned in the first eight Items of this my will, then I will 
and direct them to be paid, so far as the means in my exec utor's 
hands will allow them to be paid, after providing for said eight 
prior items, pro rata. And if I shall hold any claims of any 
kind at the the time of my decease, against any of the legatees 
named in said Items Ninth to the Twenty-first inclusive what- 
ever may be the date of such claims, I will and direct that the 
amount thereof with interest, shaU be deducted from his or her 
legacy. And if after the payment of the said legacies mentioned 
in the said Items Ninth to the Twenty-first inclusive, my 
estate shall prove insufficient to pay the legacies mentioned in 
the Items Twenty-second to the Twenty-sixth, both inclusive 
of this my will, then I will and direct them to be paid, after 
providing for and paying all former Items, pro rata. 

ITEM TWENTY-EIGHT. I have made in this will no 
provision for, nor left an}' legacies to, any of the relatives or 
friends of my said wife, Susan W. Clabk, for the reason 
that the means which I have already placed at her disposal 
and those which are now standing in her own name, together 
with the provisions which I have made for her in this my will, 
are quite ample, to enable her if it be her good pleasure so to 
do, to provide for them quite as liberally as I have done for my 
own family and kindred by the provisions hereinbefore made 
for them. 

ITEM TWENTY-NINTH. I direct my executors here- 
inafter named, within a reasonable and proper time after my 
decease, to procure and erect a Monument to mark the final 
resting place of the remains of myself, and of my said wife, 
Susan W. Clark. Such Monument I desire to be plain and 
substantial in its character, to be constructed of suitable and 



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enduring materials, of such style, form and design as my said 
executors after consulting with those who are familiar with 
monumental design and architecture, professionally or other- 
wise, if they shall desire to avail themselves, of the benefit and 
aid of such consultation, shall determine to be in accordance 
with the principles and rules of good taste, and in harmony with 
a general sense of fitness and propriety, taking into considera- 
tion its location and general surroundings. 

And for the purpose of carrying into effect the provisions 
of this item, my said executors are hereby authorized to ex- 
pend out of my estate a sum not exceeding thirty thousand 
dollars. 

ITEM THIRTIETH. I have for many years been im^ 
pressed with the belief that the higher educational agencies 
of our Commonwealth have not kept pace with her material 
growth nor multiplied in proportion to the increase of her 
population. I refer to those institutions of learning which 
furnish the facilities for acquiring at a moderate expense a 
general and liberal education similar in extent and thorough- 
ness to that obtained at what we are accustomed to term our 
leading Colleges and Universities. In our own immediate 
locality, in this central portion of our Commonwealth we are 
supplied with Schools and Seminaries of various grades and 
ranks in our scheme of education, which all do excellent pre- 
paratory work, and the needed work for fitting our youth for 
such an Institution as I have in mind ; to wit, an Institution 
which can take the graduates of these various schools and 
seminaries and carry them forward to as high, or even in some 
respects to a higher plane of instruction, learning and educa- 
tion than can now be furnished by any Institution in our 
Country. 

There seems to be now, therefore, a pressing demand for 
an Institution of this higher rank, which can secure the good 
results I have intimated, and do its work faithfully and effect- 
ively, and at the same time at such a reasonable cost as to 
give onr people those advantages which they are now to a 
great degree deprived of by reason of the large and ever 



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increasing expenses attendant upon the residence at our leading 
Colleges and Universities. 

And when we also consider and realize the fact, as we 
should, that the sons of New England represent the higher 
commercial interests in almost every part of the world, and 
that her Institutions exert a powerful influence in shaping the 
future of so many communities and settlements that are con- 
stantly springing up at different points in the newer portions 
of our Country, not only as to their business enterprises and 
institutions, but in all their means for intellectual and social 
development and improvement, — and when we reflect that 
improvement of this kind is essential to all that makes life 
valuable, and adds strength and solidity to our Common 
Country our great Commonwealth, the duty of wealth to 
sustain this higher education seems to me imperative. I 
determined, therefore, to devote a large part of mj'^ estate 
to the establishment of such an Institution in the City of 
Worcester which should combine in effective co-operation 
Departments ; 

1. For original research in the acquisition of knowledge, 
with 

2. General and liberal instruction to students and attend- 
ants, and 

3. Also a Library, which might to some extent under 
proper restrictions be open for general use. 

The measures which I took towards the accomplishment 
of this design have met with general approval and have 
resulted in partial success. 

The legislature of onr Commonwealth in the year 1887 
granted a Charter fully incorporating the Institution under the 
name of Clark University, which Charter was duly accepted, 
and the organization of the Corporation was fully completed. 
Since that time it has been in practical operation and has 
begun, and to a very considerable extent has realized, the 
courses of instruction and education contemplated, especially 
in the Department of original research. 



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In my petition to the I^egislature for the Charter of that 
University I proposed to devote one million dollars, and 
probably more, to its foundation and support, should the 
Community exhibit to said University evidence of its sym- 
pathy and encouragement by substantial support, 

When the University was organized and its "Charter was 
accepted I made an addition to the original million in land, 
and also of a lyibrary and other property. Since then my wife 
and I have given to the said University about one hundred 
thousand dollars in money. In my original proposition I 
offered to give more upon certain conditions which have not 
been complied with, and which, therefore, I cannot now regard. 
But I now owe one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars, 
which remains unpaid on my obligation of seven hundred 
thousand dollars given and included to make up the one million 
dollars originally pledged as hereinbefore stated. I have also 
pledged the sum of fifteen hundred dollars per month to be 
paid for the support of said University up to the first day of 
September 1893, the last payment of which is to be made on 
that day. These sums, to wit : — the balance of one hundred 
and twenty-five thousand dollars on my said original obligation, 
and said fifteen hundred dollars per month, I give and hereby 
direct my executors to pay to or for said University as above 
stated, thus confirming and fulfilling all of the devises, gifts, 
bequests, pledges and obligations which I have made or agreed 
to make or have assumed in regard to said University in the 
past. 

And now, in order to make the foregoing and the follow- 
ing provisions of this my will in regard to said University fully 
understood, I here state that I have no confidence in the future 
success of that University under the management of its present 
President, G. Stanley Hall, and I do not wish nor intend to 
contribute any more money or property to it, or to its support, 
until there is a change in that respect ; nor until the needful 
support by the People or other parties who may become inter- 
ested is practically indicated : — I therefore, will and provide 
contingently as follows : — 



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ITEM THIRTY-FIRST. In case G. Stanley Hall, the 
present President of Clark University, shall resign and cease 
to have any connection with or relation to that University 
within one year after the probate of this my will, and in case 
the People, or others interested in the purposes for which it 
was founded, shall within two years thereafter raise and con- 
tribute to said university the sum of two hundred and fifty 
thousand dollars, then and in that case, I hereby give, devise 
and bequeath to the said University the sum of five hundred 
thousand dollars ; and if the sum of five hundred thousand 
dollars is thus raised and contributed by the People, or by 
parties interested as aforesid, then and in that case, I hereby 
give, devise and bequeath to said University the sum of one 
million dollars ; said sum or sums to be placed in the endow- 
ment fund of said University ; the principal thereof to be safely 
invested and kept good, and the income only to be used for 
the current expenses of the University. 

And further I provide and condition that if the sum of 
two hundred and fifty thousand dollars is raised, and then 
some additional sums are raised within two years and are 
added thereto by the People or others interested as above 
stated then and in that case I give devise and bequeath to said 
University such sum as will be the double of the total of the 
sums thus raised and contributed, until such sums shall reach 
the total sum of five hundred thousand dollars, so that the 
total sum in that case contributed by me shall equal the sum 
of one million dollars. 

And, further, in order to give time to determine whether 
the said University can be made worthy of and actually receive 
the support by the People, or those interested as I have above 
provided, I will and direct, that in case, in the judgment of 
my executors, a bona fide effort is made to raise the two 
hundred and fifty thousand dollars for said University as above 
is proposed, and the said President Hall shall have wholly 
ceased to be in any way connected with said University, or 
shall have finally arranged to wholly sever his connection 
therewith within the said year after the probate of my will, 
then and in that case I give devise and bequeath and direct my 



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executors to pay over to the said University for the support of 
the same, during the term of two years from said probate, the 
sum of one thousand dollars per month. 

ITEM THIRTY-SECOND. I make the above con- 
ditional provisions, because I cherish the hope and have little 
doubt but that said Clark University can be established and 
conducted so as to be useful to the educational institutions and 
interests of the City and State in which it is situated and to 
the Country at large as I have hereinbefore indicated. 

I accordingly wish the said University to be re-organized 
by its trustees in a way that will enable it to meet the wants 
of the People as an educational institution, in addittion to its 
other Departments as hereinbefore described, and so that tile 
People will feel it to be worthy to also receive their co-opera- 
tion and support ; and to that end I would wish the tuition 
to be fixed at a moderate rate so that many may be able to 
avail themselves of an education that they could not otherwise 
obtain. 

In case, therefore, the provisions hereinbefore provided 
are accepted and acted upon, so that the sums I have above 
provided conditionally are actually to be paid over to said 
University, then I further will direct and condition that the 
sums so paid over to the full extent thereof shall be added 
to and be held and invested by its Trustees as a part of the 
permanent fund of said University, which for the sake of 
convenience I designate as The University Endowment Fund. 
The income of this Fund shall be devoted to the general uses 
and purposes of the University in its conduct and management, 
and shall be confined to its active and legitimate work, month 
by month, and year by year, and to furnishing the necessary 
and proper means for enabling its students in the different de- 
partments of the institution to realize the full benefit of their 
regular course. But it is not intended, however, that such in- 
come shall furnish means for the support of Emeritus Professor- 
ships the payment of pensions to retiring Professors, or other 
payments of a similar character. I recognize that provisions 
of this kind are highly creditable, and not to say necessary. 



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and I favor and recommend the adoption of some plan looking 
to the establishment of some fund for that purpose from further 
endowments or contributions. 

But my will and the condition of the said endowment 
Fund is, that the proceeds of said Fund shall be used to sus- 
tain in effective working condition the three Departments 
which I have above described, in equally effective working or- 
der and operation as near as may be, to wit : the Department 
for original research and experiment ; the Department for gen- 
eral and popular education ; and a lyibrary to be as easy of 
access as can be arranged, and to have a circulating division if 
possible. As a foundation for this lyibrary I have contributed 
as above stated and have placed in it books and works of rarity 
and value which I wish to be carefully preserved. 

ITEM THIRTY-THIRD. The endowment fund named in 
the preceding item, to wit : the University Endowment Fund, 
is never to be diminished, and no part of the income thereof is 
ever to be applied to any other than the objects to which said 
income is devoted by the provisions and conditions contained 
in the several Items of this Will creating the same. If by any 
accident or loss, the principal of said fund shall at any time be- 
come impaired, then the income of such fund so impaired, shall 
be added to the principal until such impairment is made good 
and the Fund is restored to its original amount. 

And I do further will, direct and provide in regard to the 
said Endowment Fund of said University, and for the purpose 
of preserving the same intact, that in case any person or persons 
in any way controlling or connected with said University, or 
its property, officially or individually, shall use or attempt to 
use, or keep, or invest, or apply said property, or any part 
thereof otherwise than in my will is provided, or so as to en- 
danger the same in any way, then in that case I request, will, 
direct and empower any one of my executors, or any one of 
the Trustees of said University, or the Mayor of the city of 
Worcester then in office, in their discretion together, or in- 
dividually, to apply to the proper Court for the removal or re- 
straint of such person or persons, and for the proper protection 



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and security of said endowment fund and property, to the end 
that the same and the whole thereof may be sacredly preserved, 
and the income thereof may be securely devoted to the purposes 
of said University as provided in this my will. 

And to that end I further will, provide and direct that the said 
Trustees shall make and keep an accurate and full record of the 
investments of said Fund and property, and a full and accurate 
account of all the business and affairs of said Clark University ; 
which records and accounts shall be at all times open to ihe in- 
spection of said executors and the said Mayor, and at the 
close of each year said Trustees shall make a statement of the 
same to the said Mayor showing the actual property invest- 
ments, income, disbursements, and the condition and usefulness 
of said University. And I hereby direct and empower any one 
of my said executors or all of them, or any one of said trusted, 
or the said Mayor to apply to said Court to compel such state- 
ment to be made, if in their judgment, the foregoing provisions 
in regard to it, are not fully and properly complied with. 

And I also declare in this connection, that it is my earnest 
desire, will and direction, that the said University, in its prac- 
tical management, as well as in theory, may be wholly free 
from every kind of denominational or sectarian control, bias or 
limitation, and that its doors may be ever open to all classes 
and persons whatsoever may be their religious faith or political 
sympathies, or to whatever creed, sect, or party they may be- 
long, and I especially charge upon my executors and said 
trustees, and the said Mayor to secure the enforcement of this 
clause of my will by applications to the Court as above pro- 
vided, or otherwise by every means in their power. 

ITEM THIRTY-FOURTH. And in case the said sum 
of five hundred thousand dollars shall be raised for and be con- 
tributed to said University, as is above provided in this my will, 
so that the sum of one million dollars shall be given, devised 
and bequeathed to, and be received by said University, from my 
estate as hereinbefore is provided, then and in that case, but 
not otherwise, I also give, devise and bequeath all of the rest 
residue and remainder of my estate, real and personal, or mixed, 



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of which I may die seized or possessed, or to which I may in 
any way be entitled at the time of my decease, whatsoever the 
same may be wherever it may be or be situated, or however it 
may be known, designated or described, including all rever- 
sions and remainders, unto the said Clark University ; the 
same to be added to, and to become a part of the said Uuiversity 
Endowment fund hereinbefore described, and as such to be 
kept invested and used as hereinbefore is provided in regard to 
said Fund ; And thus to have and to hold the same to the said 
Clark University in the manner, and for the purposes aforesaid 
and to its successors and assigns, to its and to their use and be- 
hoof forever. 

If within three years of the probate of my said will the sum 
of five hundred thousand dollars shall not be raised for and be 
contributed to said University, as is above provided and con- 
ditioned in this my will, then and in that case, I give, devise 
and bequeath all the rest, residue and remainder of my estate 
and property as above described, and which is not in this my 
will otherwise disposed of, to my heirs and next of kin, to be 
held, taken and divided by and among them according to law, 
in all respects as though I had died intestate as to such re- 
siduary property. 

And for and during the said three years after the said pro- 
bate of my will, during which time it will be determined 
whether the conditional provisions hereinbefore provided for 
the benefit of Clark University, will be accepted and realized 
or not, I do hereby give devise and be queth all of the estate, 
property or moneys covered by or referred to in said pro- 
visions to my said executors, for them to have and to hold the 
same in trust nevertheless, and to safely keep preserve and in- 
vest, the same similarly, as I have provided in regard to the 
fund for my wife, in the Fifth Item of this my will, and upon 
the expiration of said three years, or during the same to pay 
over and to dispose of the said property, money and estate so 
held by them as aforesaid, to the said Clark University if the 
said conditional provisions have been accepted and realized 
during or at the expiration of said three years ; but if the said 
conditional provisions shall not have been accepted and realized 



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at the expiration of said three years, then to pay over and dis- 
pose of said trust property and estate as a part of my residuary 
estate to wit, to my heirs and next of kin as hereinbefore is 
provided. 

ITEM THIRTY-FIFTH. For the purpose of facilitating 
as much as possible the settlement of my business affairs, and 
relieving those having the care and management of my estate 
of as much labor, care, trouble and inconvenience as may be, 
I hereby authorize and empower my said executors or the sur- 
vivor of them, or whichever of them may be in the execution 
of the trust, if only one of them shall accept and qualify to sell, 
and to pass deeds to convey, any or all of the real estate of 
which I may die seized ( and not therein otherwise disposed of ^ 
or to which I may in any waj'' be entitled at the time of my 
decease, or any interest which I may have in such estate 
including all reversions or remainders, whatsoever or whereso- 
ever the same may be, or however known, bounded measured 
or described, at such times, in such way or manner, upon such 
terms or conditions, and for such prices, as they in the exercise 
of a sound discretion may deem wise and expedient, and most 
for the interest of those entitled to my estate under the several 
provisions herein contained. And the same power and authori- 
ty is also hereby conferred upon any administrator with the 
will annexed, or any person who may be lawfully entrusted 
with the execution of this my will. It being always expressly 
understood, however, that no purchaser, at any sale made un- 
der the authority contained in this Item, shall in any event be 
made answerable for the application of the purchase money. 

And I further authorize and empower my said executors, 
or any person to whom may be committed the execution of 
this Instrument, to settle, compromise or refer to arbitration, 
any claim which may be due to or from my estate, and about 
which there may be any dispute or controversy, in such man- 
ner, and upon such terms, as may seem to them wise, proper, 
just, or equitable, and without first obtaining the leave or per- 
mission of any Court or Tribunal whatever. 

And further it is my will, direction and intent that if any 



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one of the Items or clauses of this my will, shall be or become 
invalidated or inoperative from any cause such fact shall not 
in any way affect the validity of this mj'^ will, nor of any other 
portions thereof not strictly dependent upon the provisions 
which may be or become invalidated or inoperative. 

ITEM THIRTY-SIXTH. I do hereby nominate and ap- 
point my beloved wife, Susan W. Ci^ark, to be the executrix, 
and my brother Appleton Clark, of Cambridge, and my 
brother I^eonard Clark of Springfield, and my friend James 
P. Hamilton of Worcester, all of Massachusetts, to be the 
executors of this my last will and testament. 

If from any cause my said executrix, and all of the above 
named executors should not be able to act, then I hereby con- 
stitute and appoint as my sole executor my said nephew, 
Charles H. Clark, son of IvEonard Clark, now a captain 
in the Ordinance Department of the United States Government. 

I will also suggest that my said friend Hamilton, the 
Cashier of the Worcester National Bank, is so well acquainted 
with the secureties of the estate that his judgment will be 
particularly valuable in that regard, as well as in relation to 
the general management of the estate. 

He can advise with Messrs. I^aidlow & Co. (now of No. 14 
Wall street. New York City) as to the collections to be made, 
and the disposition of the property in their care. 

ITEM THIRTY-SEVENTH. It is my express desire 
that my said executors named in the last preceeding Item, and 
each of them, be excused from giving a bond or bonds or fur- 
nishing sureties for the faithful execution of any of the trusts 
herein and hereby committed to their hands in whatever 
capacity they may be called upon to act. 

And I further will and direct that each of my said execu- 
tors who may qualify and act as such, shall receive the sum of 
five thousand dollars, as full compensation for the first year of 
their personal services to be rendered by them in the settlement 
of my estate and the management of my property under the 
provisions of this instrument, in whatever capacity they may 



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be called upon to serve, and I request that such compensation 
be allowed to them in their final accounting. For all services 
that it may be necessary for my acting executors to render after 
the first year in carrying the trusts created therein or otherwise, 
I wish a reasonable compensation to be allowed to them ; but I 
desire and expect that the bulk of the affairs of my estate may 
be settled, or chiefly disposed of during the said first year after 
the probate of my said will : 

Provided always, however, in regard to said compensation, 
that in addition thereto, my said executors may be allowed 
for all reasonable and proper disbursements of money made by 
them for travelling expenses, professional services, and such 
other incidental expenses as they may necessarily incur in the 
discharge of the duties hereby laid upon them, and these duties 
I have ventured to impose in the hope and belief that th^ 
sympathise with and will have at heart the purposes I have de- 
signed to secure by this my will. 

In witness whereof I the said Jonas G. Clark, hereunto 
set my hand and ajQ5x my seal and publish and declare this in- 
strument to be my last will and testament, in the presence of 
the witnesses named below, the twenty-fourth day of February 
in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and ninety- 
three. 

JONAS G. CIvARK. (seal) 

T. B. WAKEMAN. 

WALTER G. HENNESSY. 

ELBERT LUDLAM WAKEMAN. 

Signed, sealed, published and declared by the said Jonas 
G. Clark, the testator above named, as and for his last will and 
testament in the presence of us, who, in his presence, and in 
the presence of each other, and at his request have subscribed 
our names as witnesses thereto. 

JONAS G. CLARK, (seal) 

T. B. WAKEMAN, 

No. 351 West 19th St., N. Y. City. 

WALTER G. HENNESSY, 

No. 1323 Madison Avenue, N. Y. City. 

ELBERT LUDLAM WAKEMAN, 

Oyster Bay, Long Island, N. Y. 



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CODICIL No. I. 

Know all men by these presents, that I Jonas G. Ci.ark, 
of the City of Worcester, in the County of Worcester and 
Commonwealth of Massachusetts, having heretofore made my 
last will and testament bearing date the twenty-fourth day of 
February, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-three, do 
now make this Codicil to be, and to be taken as a part of my said 
Will in all respects as though the same had been written there- 
in, to wit : — 

FIRST ITEM. Whereas I have heretofore given to The 
Clark University named in my said Will the sum of one hun- 
dred thousand dollars the income whereof was designed to be 
applied to the foundation and support of the Library of said 
University, and which sum is referred to in the Thirtieth Item 
of my said will. Now as I have paid up the sum of one hun- 
dred and twenty-five thousand dollars, referred to in said 
Item, and also the several sums of fifteen hundred dollars re- 
ferred to therein I am still desirous of increasing the means and 
utility of said Library as designed and described in my said 
will, and I do, therefore, hereby give, devise and bequeath to 
said University the further sum of one hundred thousand dol- 
lars, to be by its Ofl&cers and trustees securelykept and invested 
as is provided and directed in regard to the other endowments 
in my said will, and all of the income or proceeds thereof shall 
be by said Trustees and Officers faithfully used and applied 
to the support and maintenance of said Library and the 
increase of its efficiency and usefulness as in my said Will is 
provided and designed. 

But I make this gift, bequest and provision only upon this 
condition, to wit: That the first sum of one hundred thousand 
dollars which I have given for said Library, as above stated 
shall be by said trustees kept safely invested, and if encroached 
upon shall be restored as is directed in regard to other endow- 
ment funds in my said will, and that the proceeds and income 
thereof shall be also faithfully applied to the support of said 
Library according to the intent of my said Will and the con- 



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ditions upon which the said University was organized and its 
Charter accepted ; That is to say, that the interest income 
and proceeds only of said fund shall be applied to the support 
of said lyibrary and that the principal shall remain securely 
invested and intact. 

For my will is, that this second One hundred thousand 
dollars shall not be given until my executors know that said 
first sum of that amount is securely kept, invested and applied 
as above described. And when this second gift and bequest 
is made my will is that both of said sums shall continue to be 
kept securely invested and the income be faithfully applied as 
I have above and in my said will stated and provided. 

And in future if any part of the said first or second sum of 
one hundred thousand dollars, given and bequeathed as endov^- 
ment funds for the support of said Library as aforesaid shall be 
in any way expended, lessened or encroached upon, then and 
in that case, I authorize, request and direct my executors or 
heirs to claim, recover and collect from said University or its 
Trustees the said sum of one hundred thousand dollars hereby 
bequeathed as above stated ; and in such case I will and direct 
that they have and receive back the same as a part of my estate. 
For my will and purpose is that the total principal of Two 
hundred thousand dollars as a Library Endowment Fund, shall 
be kept in all cases and events whole and intact and without 
any encroachment, and by its income afford a constant and 
permanent support of said Library. 

And to further and secure my purpose last stated I will 
and direct that this Item of this my codicil in regard to said 
Library and its special endowment and support, shall be read, 
construed and executed as though the same had been inserted 
and found in my said will just before the Thirtieth Item there- 
of ; intending thereby to secure as my will and intention is, 
that it and its provisions shall take precedence of any and all of 
the gifts, bequests and provisions in regard to said University 
contained in the said Thirtieth and the subsequent Items of 
my said Will in case that from want of means or otherwise, 
those portions of my will should fail of execution. 

At the beginning of this Item I stated that I have paid the 



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sums mentioned in my will as completing the million dollars I 
had devoted to this University. I now state that neither have 
I nor has any one authorized by me, made or assumud any 
further or other obligations in regard to said University, 
whether as to fellowships or Scholarships, or otherwise. In 
March 1894 I sent to the Trustees a correct statement of my 
financial contributions and relations to said University which 
if need be I wish to be referred to and which was and is the 
limit of my obligations. 

SECOND ITEM. I also make the following changes and 
additions touching the special gifts and bequests contained in 
my said will to wit : — 

1. Whereas Anthony F. Clark named in the twenty- 
first Item of my said will is now deceased the bequest of one 
thousand dollars to him therein is hereby revoked and cancelled. 

2. I give and bequeath unto The American Unitarian 
Association having its oflB.ce at No. 25 Beacon street, Boston, 
the sum of two thousand dollars. 

3. I give and bequeath unto the National Conference of 
Unitarians, of which Edward Everktt Hai^k and George 
F. Hoar are Officers, the sum of five hundred dollars. 

4. I give and bequeath unto the Worcester County 
Mechanics Association of Worcester, Massachusetts, the sum 
of five hundred dollars. 

5. I give and bequeath unto the Church of the Unity, 
(Unitarian) in Worcester, Massachusetts, the sum of five hun- 
dred dollars. 

6. I give and bequeath unto the Worcester Fire Depart- 
ment, Worcester, Massachusetts, the sum of five hundred dol- 
lars. 

7. I give and bequeath unto The Fire Patrol of Worcester, 



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Worcester, Massachusetts, the sum of two hundred and fifty 
dollars. 

8. I give and bequeath unto the Castilian Club of Boston, 
Massachusetts, of which Elizabeth A. Wai<ks is correspond- 
ing Secretary, the sum of two hundred and fifty dollars. 

9. I give and bequeath unto the Company or Association 
known as the "Continentals" of Worcester, Worcester. 
Massachusetts, the sum of two hundred and fifty dollars. 

10. I give and bequeath unto Henry 1,. Keyes now in 
my employ in case he shall remain in my employ at the time of 
my death, the sum of two thousand dollars. 

And my will and direction is that the foregoing gifts ana 
bequests shall be read, construed and executed, as though the 
same had been inserted and found in my said Will just before 
the Twenty -seventh Item thereof, and that said Item shall ap- 
ply to them as it does to the gifts and legacies in said Will in 
said Item named and referred to. 

And if it so happen that some of the Associations or par- 
ties (not natural persons) to whom gifts and bequests are made 
in in my said will or codicil are not incorporated so as to be 
legally able to take the same, then my will and direction is 
that such gifts and bequests be made and be paid to the Treas- 
urer or other ofl&cer so acting of such Association or party for 
the use of the Association or party named or referred to. 

But if at the time of my death any of the said Associations 
or parties have gone out of existence, then I will and direct 
that no such payments shall be made to their late Treasurer or 
other officer, but shall be retained as a part of my estate. 

ITEM THREE. Lastly, I do hereby approve, ratify and 
confirm my said will in every respect and particular, except in 
so far as any part of it is revoked or is inconsistent with the 
provisions of this Codicil or is modified or conditioned thereby. 

In witness whereof I the said Jonas G. Clark, hereunto 
set my hand and affix my seal and do publish and declare this 



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Instrument to be a Codicil to my said last will and testament in 
the presence of the winesses named below, this eighteenth day 
of May in the year of our Ivord, one thousand eight hundred 
and ninety-five. 

JONAS G. CLARK, (seal) 
In the presence of 

T. B. WAKEMAN. 
FREELING W. ARVINE. 
EI.BERT I.UDI.AM WAKEMAN. 
The foregoing instrument was upon the day of the date 
thereof signed, sealed, published and declared by Jonas G. 
Clark, the testator named and described therein, to be a codi- 
cil to his I^ast Will and testament named therein, in the presence 
of us, who in his presence and in the presence of each other, 
and at his request have hereunto subscribed our names as wit- 
nesses to the same. 

T. B. WAKEMAN, 

No. 142 East 35th St., N. Y. City. 
FREEZING W. ARVINE, 

St. George, Staten Island. 
EI.BERT LUDLAM WAKEMAN, 

Oyster Bay, Long Island. 
JONAS G. CLARK, (seal) 



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CODICII. No. 2. 

Know all men hy these Presents that I, Jonas G. CIvARK 
of the City of Worcester in the County of Worcester and Com- 
monwealth of Massachusetts, having heretofore made my last 
will and testament bearing date the twenty-fourth day of 
February, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-three, and 
also a Codicil annexed thereto bearing date the eighteenth day 
of May one thousand eight hundred and ninety-five, do now 
make and execute this instrument as a second codicil to my 
said Will, to be, and to be taken as a part of my said will in all 
respects as though the same had been written therein, to wit: — 

FIRST ITEM. Whereas in the said Codicil to my will 
executed on the eighteenth day of May 1895 I gave and be- 
queathed to Clark University the sum of one hundred thousand 
dollars, to be used for the support of the Ivibrary of said 
University ; Now, I do hereby revoke, cancel and annul the 
said gift and bequest, leaving my said will and codicil in all 
respects as though the same had not been made. 

SECOND ITEM. In making my first gift of one hun- 
dred thousand dollars for the benefit of the Library of Clark 
University, when the University w^as first organized I specified 
that the income only was to be used for the support of the 
Library. I did not for a moment think that the income of that 
original endowment for the Library would be applied and used 
in paying the Salary of the Librarian of the University or for the 
warming and lighting of the rooms &c, which I find has been 
done. I certainly expected that if money was furnished for 
the purchase of books the University would take care of them 
and charge the same to general expenses. 

I have, therefore, revoked, cancelled and annulled the gift 
and bequest referred to in the first Item of this Instrument. 
But I desire, subject to the conditions stated in my said codicil 
and hereafter in this Instrument to give and bequeath the sum 
of one hundred thousand dollars for the increase of the Library 



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of said University, and therefore, I do hereby renew and re- 
store the gift and bequest made and expressed in my said Codicil 
and thus I do hereby give and bequeath to the said Clark 
University for the increase of its said I^ibrary the sum of one 
hundred thousand dollars upon the terms and conditions stated 
in said Codicil and upon the following further terms and con- 
ditions and none other : to wit. 

1. That the Trustees of said University in addition to the 
said terms and conditions expressed in my said first Codicil do 
also see to it that all of the income of the said original endow- 
ment fund of one hundred thousand dollars for said lyibrary 
which has been taken from the Clark University Fund shall 
not be used for any purpose except for the purchase of books, 
and as far as the same has been otherwise used shall be re- 
placed and made good, so that it can be made available and be 
used for the purchase of books. 

2. And also that the said Trustees shall make good the 
over-draft of $9,568.04 which has been taken from the princi- 
pal of the lyibrary fund, the first year after the University was 
opened, and which was provided for in the gift by me of $50, 
000 under a mutual agreement with G. Stani^ey Hall, the 
President of said University referred to and explained in a 
Letter from me to him bearing date Worcester June i, 1895, a 
copy of which I mark "Exhibit A", and also annex to this my 
codicil as a matter of explaination and which letter was written 
to him rather than to the said Trustees because he was at that 
time in charge of the University Books. 

3. And also that the whole Endowment Fund for said 
Library increased by this gift of one hundred thousand dollars 
to the total sum of Two hundred thousand dollars, shall be 
held and kept by said University only as an Endowment Fund, 
whereof the principal shall not be encroached upon for any 
purpose, and the income thereof shall be used only in purchas- 
ing books for said Library ; but both principal and income 
shall be subject to the terms (and) and conditions and the 



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protection specified in the first Item of my said Codicil of May 
i8, 1895. 

But now in case the terms conditions and protection aforesaid 
are not strictly complied with kept and preserved as to said 
total Endowment Fund of Two hundred thousand dollars, 
then I do hereby request authorize and direct my executors to 
withold the payment of said sum of One hundred thousand 
dollars named in my said Codicil of May 18 1895 and given as 
above provided and conditioned in this Instrument ; and in 
case the said One hundred thousand dollars shall have been 
paid over to said University, and then the terms conditions 
and protection aforesaid are not strictly kept complied with and 
preserved as to the whole of said Endowment Fund of Two 
hundred thousand dollars then and in that case I do hereby 
request, authorize and direct my executors to proceed andnto 
recover back and collect the said sum of one hundred thousand 
dollars given as above provided for said I^ibrary in this Instru- 
ment, as forfeited for such it shall be, to my estate, and obtain 
and return the same to the rest residue and remainder of my 
estate : — It being my firm will intent and purpose that the 
whole of said Endowment fund of two hundred thousand dol- 
lars shall be kept and held sacred and intact, and that the 
income thereof shall be applied only and strictly for the pur- 
chasing of books for said lyibrary otherwise that the said gift 
made in this Instrument for said Library is simply conditional 
and is to be witheld by my executors or be recovered back by 
them so that it will remain or become a part of my residuary 
estate. 

THIRD ITEM. In regard to my Private Library my 
wish and direction to the Trustees of said University is that 
they will provide so that the books and matters belonging to 
the same may be kept in the University Building and may not 
be removed, nor allowed to be used for general circulation. 

FOURTH ITEM. I make the following provisions in 
regard to Works of Art and the Art Department of said Uni- 
versity, to wit : — 



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If the Trustees of Clark University will take the Works 
of Art which we may leave, for I have provided that the same 
shall remain in the possession of my wife during her life, and 
will furnish good suitable and permanent rooms in Clark Uni- 
versity Building and not elsewhere, well warmed and lighted 
and in good condition to exhibit the same permanently and to 
the best advantage, and free of expense to the public or to 
Visitors, then and in that case I hereby give and bequeath to 
said Clark University the further sum of one hundred thousand 
dollars as an Endowment Fund for the Art Department of said 
University, and the said sum is to be held and kept sacred 
and intact as a principal not to be used or expended under any 
condition; but the income interest or proceeds thereof shall be 
used only in putting and keeping the said Works of Art, or 
others given or obtained for said Department in good condition, 
and in taking care of them ; and then if there is a surplus of 
the income of said Fund left, I will and direct that it be used 
in the purchasing of additional Works of Art or of such 
matters as will add to the usefulness and efficianc y of said Art 
Department. 

But this gift and Endowment of the Art Department of 
said University is made and shall be subject to the same pro- 
tection and conditions as are specified in my said will, and this 
item making said endowment will take and be of effect as 
though the same were contained in my said will directly after 
the gift for the endowment 'of said lyibrary and before Item 
Thirty of said will, and this gift and endowment is also subject 
to the same terms, and conditions and protection as are specified 
in the two Codicils to my said will in regard to the Endowment 
fund of the lyibrary of said University : So that in case the 
said conditions upon which the said gift and endowment for 
said Art Department is made are not strictly complied with I 
will and direct my said executors to withhold and to refuse 
to pay over the same to said University, or in case it shall have 
been paid over, and the said conditions upon which the same 
was given shall not be fully and continuously complied with, 
then and in that case I will and direct my executors to proceed 
to recover back and to collect the said one hundred thousand 



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dollars as forfeited, whicli it shall be, and to return the same 
to the rest and residue of my estate. 

FIFTH ITEM. In case any of the Items or part of any 
Item of my said will or of either of the codicils thereto shall be 
found to be illegal or void or non-effective, such fact shall not 
in any wise affect any other part or portions of said Instru- 
ment which may otherwise be legal and capable of execution. 
And, Finally, I do hereby in all respects approve, ratify 
and confirm my said will and prior Codicil, except in so far as 
any part of the same may be revoked or may be inconsistent 
with the provisions in this Codicil or may be modified or con- 
ditioned thereby. 

In witness whereof, I the said Jonas G. Clark hereun^p 
set my hand and affix my seal and do publish and declare this 
Instrument to be the second Codicil to my said last will and 
testament in the presence of the witnesses named below, this 
twenty-fifth day of January in the year of our I^ord, one thou- 
sand eight hundred and ninety-six. 

JONAS G. CLARK, (seal) 
In the presence of 

T. B. WAKEMAN. 
WALTER G. HENNESSY. 
ELBERT LUDLAM WAKEMAN. 
The foregoing Instrument was upon the day of the date 
thereof signed, sealed, published and declared by Jonas G. 
Clark, the testator named and described therein, to be the 
second codicil to his last will and testament named therein, in 
the presence of us who in his presence and in the presence of 
each other, and at his request have hereunto subscribed our 
names as witnesses to the same. 
T. B. WAKEMAN, 

No. 142 East 35th St., N. Y. City. 
WALTER G. HENNESSY, 

residing at 1323 Madison Avenue, N. Y. City. 
ELBERT LUDLAM WAKEMAN, 
Mill Neck, Long Island. 



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"EXHIBIT A." 

being the Letter to President Hai,l referred in the foregoing 

Codicil. ^ 

"Worcester, June i, 1895, 

President G. Stanley Hall, 

My dear sir : — 

Since I have 

been in Worcester the last few days I have learned for the 

first time that none of the Fifty thousand dollars that I gave to 

the University the second year was credited to the Library 

account. You may recollect in discussing our condition at the 

Commencement of the second year, I proposed to give $40,000 to 

pay old bills and balance to the general fund of the University. 

You stated that the Library fund had been over drawn 
about $10,000. In order to make that good I added $10,000 
more, making the donation $50,000 to make good that account 
that we may have the full benefit of the income from the Li- 
brary Endowment Fund. You said you would need that 
amount for books and balance was to go into the general fund 
to be used where it was most needed. By some oversight this 
has all been placed in the general fund. 

In order to make this correction $9,568.04 should be taken 
from the general fund and placed to the credit of the Library 
Fund. 

I trust you will see the importance of the adjustment of the 
account. 

Very respectfully yours, 

JONAS G. CLARK." 

NOTE. This is a copy of the letter sent to G. Stanley 
Hall, June ist, 1895. 

In this letter announcing the donation, I did not allude to 
the understanding with Dr. Hall, that the old bills were first 
to be paid, as he said it would not sound well to allude to it. 
as he claimed it would be taken for granted that was the first 
thing to be done. 

JONAS G. CLARK, 
JONAS G. CLARK, (seal) 



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CODICIL No. 3. 

Be it remembered that I, Jonas G. Clark of the City 
and County of Worcester and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 
being of sound and disposing mind do make, publish and 
declare this Instrument as a codicil to my last will and testa- 
ment, said Will having been executed on the twenty-fourth 
day of February in the year 1893 and two prior codicils thereto 
having been executed by me, the first on the eighteenth day 
of May in the year 1895 and the second on the twenty-fifth 
day of January in the year 1896. I hereby revoke, annul, and 
cancel so much of the conditions contained in the thirty-first 
Item of my said will as relates to G. Stanley Hall, the 
present President of Clark University, and to his ceasing to 
have any connection with said University, said condition beinf 
set forth in the first thirty-five words of said Item, and except 
for said clause so annulled and except as hereinafter provided, 
I hereby ratify confirm and republish my said will and codicils 
so that the same shall continue and be of force and validity as 
if said clause so cancelled had never been inserted in said Will. 

When said clause was written I felt compelled to adopt 
that course, inasmuch as the said President Hall had failed to 
carry out the plans agreed upon at the outset of the undertak- 
ing, which were to take up certain branches or courses of ad- 
vanced or postgraduate work or research or instruction for a 
period of three years, and at the expiration of said term to 
inaugurate a regular course of collegiate instruction for which 
the work of the previous three years should have prepared the 
way. He has until now steadily declined to take any measures 
to carry out the latter part of the plans, but at the present 
time consents to immediately commence a collegiate depart- 
ment, and I desire to assist that work in a manner that will 
meet the wants of the community and enable some to obtain a 
liberal education who could not under less fav^orable conditions- 

With this end in view I make the following provisions. 

The trustees of Clark University are to elect a President 
of the Collegiate Department of the University, who shall be 
and remain absolutely independent of the President of the Uni- 



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versity and shall be responsible only to the trustees, and shall 
conduct this department as a separate and independent branch 
of the University. 

There shall be no charge for tuition in said Department 
during the first year of its establishment ; for the second year 
the charge shall be fixed at twenty-five dollars, and for the 
third year at fifty dollars for each student. 

All students of said Department are to have the use of the 
University Library in its reading-room, but are not to be 
allowed to take books away from the library except within the 
building. They are also to be permitted to attend any lecture 
in the University without extra charge. . 

If such a department as I have thus described is inaugu- 
rated, and the conditions and provisions which I have indicated 
are carried out by the trustees, and statutes or regulations 
framed by them for compliance with said provisions, I agree 
on my part to give to the trustees of Clark University the sum 
of seventy-five thousand 75000 dollars to enable them to carry 
out the plan said amount to be paid in instalments as follows : — 
two thousand and eighty-three and one third dollars during 
the first mouth of the operation of said department, and the 
same amount during each month that said department contin- 
ues in operation allowing of course for usual vacations, so that 
at the end of three years if said department continues in opera- 
so long, said amount of seventy-five thousand dollars will have 
been paid but if said department is abandoned before the 
expiration of said period all liability for further payments shall 
cease. And I hereby give, devise and bequeath upon the 
conditions hereinbefore set forth, and payable in the manner 
and upon the conditions hereinbefore set forth, to the trustees of 
Clark University so much of said sum of seventy-five thousand 
dollars as has not been paid and given by me in my lifetime, 
the same to be held and used by said trustees for the purposes 
of said Department and for no other. And I direct the execu- 
tors, executor, or administrators, who shall carry out the 
provisions of this instrument to satisfy themselves that the 
provisions of this Codicil have been and are being complied 
with, and thereupon to make such payments as become due 



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under the foregoing provisions, at the times and in the manner 
just set forth. 

The provisions of this Codicil are to take effect as if 
inserted in my will aforesaid before the thirtieth item of said 
will, and I also revoke, annul and cancel all reference to G. 
Stanley Hall aforesaid in said thirtieth item, in the last 
paragraph thereof, so far as the same imports or may be con- 
strued to imply any condition upon the other items of said will 
or the codicils thereto. 

In testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand and seal 
this twelfth day of August in the year one thousand eight 
hundred and ninety-seven. 

JONAS G. CLARK, (seal) 

On the day and year last above written Jonas G. Clark 
signed the foregoing instrument in our presence and declared 
it to be a third codicil to his last will and testament and re- 
quested us to witness it as such ; and thereupon in his presence 
and in presence of each other we hereunto set our hands as 
witnesses. 

CHARLES F. ALDRICH, 
GEORGE W. MACKINTIRE, 
FREDERICK M. HEDDEN. 



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CODICIL No. 4. 

Be it remembered that I, Jonas G. Ci^ark of the City 
and county of Worcester and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 
» being of sound and disposing mind, do make, publish, and de- 
clare this instrument as a fourth Codicil to my last will and 
testament, said will bearing date the twenty-fourth day of Feb- 
ruary in the year 1893, and three prior Codicils thereto having 
been executed by me, the first on the eighteenth day of May 
in the year 1895, the second on the twenty-fifth day of January 
in the year 1896, and the third on the twelfth day of August in 
the current year. 

First, I revoke and annul so much of the third Codicil 
aforesaid as makes provision for the establishment of a Collegiate 
Department of Clark Universit5^ and so much of said Codicil 
as provides and bequeaths under certain conditions a fund of 
seventy-five thousand dollars for that purpose. 

When said Codicil was made I believed that President 
Hall was prepared to accede to my views on this matter and 
that the plan of a Collegiate Department as outlined by me was 
to be carried out. Since that time after several interviews with 
President Hall I find that I have altogether misunderstood 
him, and that his present propositions and plans are totally 
different from those which I had supposed we had both agreed 
to. I therefore for these reasons withdraw the financial support 
I proposed under said Codicil to furnish. 

If however I can hereafter agree with the Trustees with 
regard to the matter of a Collegiate Department, it is my wish 
and intention to contribute to its support. 

Second, upon condition that the Trustees of Clark Uni- 
versity, shall set aside for the purpose, out of the land now 
owned by the Corporation, a lot of land having a frontage of 
one hundred feet on Main street and of two hundred and twenty 
feet on Downing street, I agree to erect thereon, at an expense 
not to exceed one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, a build- 
ing for use in connection with said University as a library and 
as a department of Arts and Sciences. 



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For this purpose, upon the condition aforesaid with regard 
to the site, I give and bequeath to the Trustees of Clark Uni- 
versity so much of the sum of one hundred and fifty thousand 
dollars as I shall not have expended upon such a building in 
my lifetime, to hold in trust for the sole purpose of finishing, 
furnishing, and maintaining in accordance with plan or plans 
that may have been adopted and begun during my life, a build- 
ing upon the site aforesaid to be occupied and used by said 
University for a library and for a department of Arts and Sci- 
ences; or, if said building shall not have been begun during my 
lifetime, then the whole sum of one hundred and fifty thousand 
dollars hereby bequeathed is to be held in trust by said Trus- 
tees for the sole purpose of erecting, furnishing, and maintain- 
ing a building upon said site to be used for such purposes; and 
this bequest is upon the further express trust that at least o»e 
hundred thousand dollars of the fund herein provided shall be 
used and expendied in the erection of the building itself. 

It is my desire and intention to provide this building for 
the proper care, preservation, and use of the books and works of 
Art that are now or may become the property of the Univer- 
sity, and that such valuable things should have a proper 
repository from which they should not be removed. 

I therefore expressly provide and impose as a trust and con- 
dition upon all books and works of Art given by me to the 
University or purchased with funds given by me, that they 
shall be forever kept as the property of the University and 
neither sold, exchanged nor removed from the building provided 
for their accommodation. 

This bequest is to take effect as if inserted in my will before 
referred to before the thirtieth item thereof and is to take pri- 
ority over all subsequent items of said will and the Codicils 
thereto. 

Kxcept as herein modified or expressly annulled, I hereby 
ratif)'', confirm and republish my will and codicils hereinbefore 
referred to. 

In testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand and seal 
this third day of November in the year one thousand eight 
hundred and ninety-seven. 

JONAS G. CIvARK. (Seal) 



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On the day and year last above written, Jonas G. Clark 
declared the foregoing instrument to be a codicil to his last will 
and requested us to witness it as such, and in his presence and 
in the presence of each other we have hereto set our names as 
witnesses, 

CHARLES F. ALDRICH. 

F. P. DOUGLASS. 

HENRY L. KEYES. 



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CODICIL No. 5. 

Be it remembered that I, Jonas G. Ci^ark of the City and 
County of Worcester and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, do 
make, publish and declare this instrument as a fifth Codicil to 
my will ; said Will bearing date the twenty-fourth day of 
February in the year 1893 ; the Codicils bearing date respec- 
tively as follows ; — the first, the eighteenth day of May in 
the year 1895 ; ^^^ second, the twenty-fifth day of Januar}^ in the 
year 1896 ; the third, the twelfth day of August in the year 
1897 ; the fourth, the third day of November in the year 1897. 

ITKM I. It is my earnest desire to provide for the carry- 
ing out of that which was originally intended and proposed as 
the principal feature of Clark University, namely, a Collegiate 
Department where young men who have graduated from the 
high schools and other preparatory schools and have not the 
means to enable them to attend Universities where the expense 
is large, may obtain at a moderate cost and in a three years 
course a practical education which shall fit them for useful 
citizenship and their work in life. 

The building on the grounds of Clark University now 
known as the Chemical Labratory, at a reasonable cost can be 
fitted to accommodate a considerable number of students. It 
would not be difficult for the trustees to secure the services of 
a man as President of the Collegiate Department who has had 
practical experience in training and educating young men in 
the manner I have suggested. 

On condition that the Trustees of Clark University will 
choose as President of the Collegiate Department, one who has 
no connection with the University, and will establish such a 
Collegiate Department as an entirely separate and independent 
organization, and will so provide that its president shall be re- 
sponsible only to the Trustees, and that the management of 
this department shall be absolutely separate from the University 
as now organized, and in fact will carry out substantially the 
provisions and conditions set forth in the third Codicil to my 
will, I will give, and do hereby, upon the said conditions, give 



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and bequeath to the Trustees of Clark University the sum of 
one hundred thousand dollars to hold in trust as an endowment 
fund for said Collegiate Department, the income only of said 
fund to be expended annually under the direction of said 
Trustees for the support of said Department and the principal 
to be kept intact as is provided in my will and codicils aforesaid 
with regard to other funds given to the Institution. And to 
further secure the establishment of such a department, upon the 
conditions aforesaid and upon the conditions set forth in my 
said Third Codicil, I do hereby renew the gift of seventj^-five 
thousand dollars as set forth in said Codicil and revoked for 
the reasons stated in my fourth Codicil, so that upon the con- 
ditions aforesaid I hereby give, devise, and bequeath said sum 
of seventy-five thousand Dollars to the Trustees of Clark Uni- 
versity, upon the trusts set forth in said third Codicil, and sub- 
ject in all respects to the provisions thereof as to the use there- 
of and as to times and amounts of payments ; provided however, 
that in place of the requirement that members of the Collegiate 
Department should be permitted to attend any lectures in said 
University, it should be provided that they be given all reason- 
able privileges afforded by said University, including attendance 
on all public lectures without additional charge 

I should further recommend that the south hall in the 
basement of the University Building be set aside for a gym- 
nasium for students in this department. 

ITKM 2. In the fourth Codicil above referred to I have 
made provision for a building for a Department of Arts and 
Sciences. The building which I contemplate is to provide 
suitable accommodations for the library of the University and 
also for its works of Art, and suitable guarantees should be 
provided that the books and works of Art should not be re- 
moved from the building. In this connection I wish to so far 
modify the language of the second Codicil in relation to this 
subject that it shall read that all books and works of Art given 
by me to the University shall be and remain in the building 
provided for them on the grounds of the University, or in a 
building on grounds adjoining the present University grounds, 



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and this condition is to apply to all books and works of Art 
given by me to said University. 

It seems to me wise that the government of this depart- 
ment should be to some extent in the hands of those who are 
to receive its benefits. The rules should be so framed that any 
person of good character may on the payment of a small fee to 
be fixed by the board of government, become an associate 
member of this Department and entitled to enjoy its privileges. 
I would then recommend that its board of government or con- 
trol should consist of the nine trustees of the University, and 
of nine other persons to be chosen by vote of the associate mem- 
bers from among their number. The Mayor of the City of Wor- 
cester might be added and given a casting vote in case of a tie 
on any questions upon which the board should be divided. 

In order to relieve the trustees as much as possible from 
care and responsibility in connection with the new building, 
and in order that plans which have been carefully matured 
may not fail of being carried out, I desire to provide at the ex- 
pense of my estate a man who is conversant with the details, 
and who shall have charge of said building and its contents. 

I therefore direct my executors to employ Henry L. 
Keyks who is now in my employ to attend to such details of 
my affairs as he is now accustomed to, and to act as Custodian 
of the building for a Department of Arts and Sciences, during 
its erection and after its completion for a period of five years 
from the probate of this instrument. He is to collect rents and 
account to the executors for them as he has been accustomed to 
account with me, once a month, and to retain therefrom his 
weekly compensation. For this purpose I direct the executors 
to allow him the sum of twenty-one dollars per week until the 
building is completed and twenty-four dollars per week there- 
after. If from any change in circumstances this remuneration 
should become inadequate, I wish my executors to deal liber- 
ally with him. He is to have the custody or superintendence 
of the building and its contents for said period of five years, 
and to employ such assistants for the care of the same as may be 
necessary, the expense of such care outside of his own salary to 
be charged upon the funds of the Institution and Mr, Keyes 



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to account to the Trustees for all expenses ordered or incurred 
by him in and about said building. If for any reason Mr. 
Keyes declines to serve or ceases to serve in this capacity, I 
direct my executors to fill the vacancy by the appointment of 
some other suitable person who shall assume these duties. 

The provisions of this item with regard to the employment 
of a custodian are to be considered as if inserted in said fourth 
codicil, and compliance with them is to form one of the condi- 
tions of said gift for a building for a Department of Arts and 
Sciences. 

ITEM 3. I revoke so much of the provision of my Will 
aforesaid, as relates to the disposition of the rest and residue of 
my estate, said provisions being contained in the 34th item of 
said will. 

All the rest and residue of the property of every nature of 
which I may be seized and possessed or to which I may be en- 
titled at the time of my decease, which shall remain undisposed 
of by the foregoing provisions of my will and codicils, I direct 
my executors to divide into one thousand equal shares. 

Of these shares, I give, devise and bequeath five hundred 
shares to the Trustees of Clark University to hold in trust as 
an additional endowment fund for the Collegiate Department 
aforesaid in case the same is successfully established as provided 
hereinbefore and this bequest is subject to the same conditions 
and upon the same trusts as the prior gifts for the same depart- 
ment. 

I give, devise and bequeath to said Trustees of Clark 
University, two hundred and fifty of said shares of the residue 
as an endowment fund for the Department of Arts and Sciences, 
and two hundred and fifty shares as a fund for the library, 
these gifts to be subject to the same conditions, upon the same 
trusts, and liable to the same forfeitures as are provided with 
reference to prior gifts for said purposes, it being my intention 
to add the residue of my estate in the proportions indicated to 
the three funds mentioned in the same manner and with the 
same effect as if that amount had been added to the amounts 
stated in the original bequest, and without reference to other 
bequests or conditions. 



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ITEM 4. I think it proper to provide and do according- 
ly direct my executors to appoint Mr. James P. Hamilton 
one of their number, as treasurer to hold and have charge of 
such of the funds as are directed to be kept separate from the 
general endowment fund of the University, for the space of five 
years after the probate of this instrument, in order that my 
purpose to keep these funds intact and independent of said 
general fund may not fail. 

All conditions with reference to the cessation of President 
Hall's connection with the University wherever set forth or 
referred to in my said will and Codicils are hereby revoked, if any 
doubt remains from the language of the former revocation. But 
if at any time his connection with the University should cease, 
the Trustees and Executors are authorized to consolidate the 
management of the different Departments provided for, and 
thereafter the management of all Departments may be carried 
on under one head if it seems best. 

ITEM 5. The nine legacies provided in article 2 of the 
first codicil to my will are to follow item 26 of my will and to 
be paid in order after payment in full of said first 26 items. 

The monument provided for in the twenty-ninth item of 
my will has already been erected. Both that provision and 
generally any provision of my will and codicils which I may 
carry out in my lifetime are of course to lapse and become of 
no effect. 

All the minor legacies hereinbefore contained in said will 
and codicils should be paid as promptly as may be and within one 
year at least of the probate of this instrument. The large leg- 
acies I should expect to be paid certainly within three years 
and I direct my executors to allow interest at the rate of four 
per cent per annum on any of said legacies not paid within the 
times specified. 

If any clause, provision, or item of this codicil or of any 
prior codicil or of said will is illegal, void, or of no effect, the 
failure shall not extend to any other portion or provision of 
said will and codicils. 

If for any reason the provisions I have made in this codicil 



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with reference to the residue of my estate shall fail or not be 
accomplished within three years from the probate of this instru- 
ment, then said rest and residue is to be divided among my 
legally entitled representatives as if said residue were intestate 
property. 

In all respects save as herein modified I hereby reaffirm 
republish, and declare the provisions of my aforesaid will and 
the codicils thereto. 

In testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand and seal this 
twenty-sixth day of November in the year one thousand eight 
hundred and ninety-seven. 

JONAS G. CIvARK. (Seal) 

On the day and year last above written we saw Jonas G. 
Clark sign the foregoing instrument which he declared to be 
a codicil to his will, and in his presence and in presence of each 
other, at his request w^e have hereunto set our hands as wit- 
nesses. 

CHARLES F. ALDRICH. 
CHARLES E. PARKER. 
EDGAR S. DOUGLASS. 



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